The Eagle and the Worm (2023)
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.
Director: Guita Schyfter
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Marcelo Alonso as Campuzano |
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Dolores Heredia as Calixta |
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Germán Jaramillo as Valdivieso |
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Angélica Aragón as Madame Parodi |
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Horacio Castelo as Epazote |
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Laura Almela as Doctora Montejo |
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Gerardo Trejoluna as Canudas |
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Claudette Maillé as Teresa Ocaña |
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Alan Alarcón as Bolos |
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Fabiana Perzabal as Güera Peñaloza |
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Jorge Antonio Guerrero as |
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Maria Espinoza Stransky as Clemencia |
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Gilberto Barraza as |
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Mahoalli Nassourou as Agatha |
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Mardonio Carballo as |
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Roberto Duarte as |
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Álvaro Guerrero as |
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Ernesto Laguardia as |
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Selma Beraud as |
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Jaime Feinzaig as |
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Victor Chamboir as |
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William Chan Kin Yuk as |
| Directing | Guita Schyfter | Director |
| Camera | Sebastián Hiriart | Director of Photography |
| Production | Yair Ponce | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Pedro Guijarro | Makeup & Hair |
| Sound | Jonathan Ayala-Colón | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Annai Ramos | Costume Design |
| Sound | Jesus Echevarria | Music |
| Writing | Guita Schyfter | Writer |
| Writing | Hugo Hiriart | Writer |
| Art | Ana J. Bellido | Production Design |
| Sound | Nerio Barberis | Sound Designer |
| Production | Guita Schyfter | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marlenee Balandrano | Makeup & Hair |