The Eagle and the Worm
In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about the problems of his country, a political adviser whose counsel is never considered and a shady investigator with a name that nobody seems to recall. The script by Schyfter and Hugo Hiriart, her longtime collaborator and author of the 2013 novel on which the film is based, bristles with finely-crafted, hilarious dialogue.
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Cast
Marcelo Alonso
Campuzano
Dolores Heredia
Calixta
Germán Jaramillo
Valdivieso
Angélica Aragón
Madame Parodi
Horacio Castelo
Epazote
Laura Almela
Doctora Montejo
Gerardo Trejoluna
Canudas
Claudette Maillé
Teresa Ocaña
Alan Alarcón
Bolos
Fabiana Perzabal
Güera Peñaloza
Jorge Antonio Guerrero
Maria Espinoza Stransky
Clemencia
Gilberto Barraza
Mahoalli Nassourou
Agatha
Mardonio Carballo
