The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
Director:
Luis Estrada
Writers:
Luis Estrada, Jaime Sampietro.
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Damián Alcázar as Gobernador Carmelo Vargas |
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Alfonso Herrera as Carlos Rojo |
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Joaquín Cosío as Agustín Morales |
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Osvaldo Benavides as Ricardo Díaz |
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Silvia Navarro as Lucía Garza |
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Flavio Medina as Salvador Garza |
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Saúl Lisazo as Javier Pérez Harris |
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Tony Dalton as Director TV MX |
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Salvador Sánchez as Hombre X |
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Enrique Arreola as Secretario de gobierno |
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Arath de la Torre as Vocero |
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Dagoberto Gama as Procurador |
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Noé Hernández as Jefe de seguridad |
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Sonia Couoh as Nana Gemelas |
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María Rojo as Doña Chole |
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Luis Fernando Peña as El Chamoy |
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Gustavo Sánchez Parra as El Charro |
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Sergio Mayer as El Presidente |
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Hernán Mendoza as El Mazacote |
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Livia Brito Pestana as Jazmín |
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Itatí Cantoral as Lucrecia Lascurain |
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Jorge Poza as Rafael Lascurain |
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Kiara Coussirat as Gemela Ana |
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Karol Coussirat as Gemala Elena |
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Roger Cudney as Embajador USA |
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Ingrid Martz as Secretaria vicepresidencia TV MX |
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Johanna Murillo as Secretaria dirección TV MX |
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Javier Escobar as El Mapache |
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Sophie Alexander-Katz as Reportera |
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Ernesto Gómez Cruz as Señor Humilde |
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José Concepción Macías as Testigo |
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Claudia Pineda as Niña sin rostro |
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Juan Pablo Medina as Novio |
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Jorge Zárate as Coronel |
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Guillermo Larrea as Reportero del Escándalo 1 |
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Juan Martín Jáuregui as Reportero del Escándalo 2 |
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Luciana González de León as Reportera del Escándalo 3 |
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Javier Zaragoza as Camarógrafo |
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Rubén Camelo as Ingeniero Máster |
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Tomás Rojas as Analista |
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Ari Gallegos as Colaborador del Opositor |
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Tony Flores as Tony Cuevas |
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Humberto Busto as Encargado del Hotel |
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Pedro Armendáriz Jr. as Don Alejandro |
| Directing | Luis Estrada | Director |
| Writing | Luis Estrada | Screenplay |
| Writing | Jaime Sampietro | Screenplay |
| Writing | Jaime Sampietro | Writer |
| Production | Luis Estrada | Producer |
| Production | Sandra Solares | Executive Producer |
| Production | Andrea Gamboa | Line Producer |
| Crew | Javier Aguirresarobe | Cinematography |
| Editing | Mariana Rodríguez | Editor |
| Production | Sandra León Becker | Casting |
| Art | Salvador Parra | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | María Estela Fernández | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Felipe Salazar | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Fuad Abed Dalton | Production Manager |
| Production | Milenco Galipienzo | Unit Manager |
| Production | Milenco Galipienzo | Unit Production Manager |
| Production | Andrea Gamboa | Production Manager |
| Crew | Alex Vázquez | Special Effects |
| Directing | Telma Silva | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Martín Torres | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Martín Torres | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Susana Chaparro Alvarado | Assistant Property Master |
| Art | Patricia Cuevas | Property Master |
| Art | Luisa Guala | Set Dresser |
| Art | Hector H. Rivera | Set Designer |
| Sound | Hugo DeLaCerda | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Gilda Garcia | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Salvador Félix | Sound Effects Editor |
| Editing | Christian Giraud | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Christian Giraud | ADR Editor |
| Sound | Christian Giraud | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Dave Hibbert | Foley |
| Sound | Pablo Lach | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Pablo Lach | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Maureen Murphy | Foley |
| Sound | Santiago Núñez | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Luis Yañez | Sound Editor |
| Visual Effects | Adriana Arriaga | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Jorge Luis Medina | Digital Compositors |
| Visual Effects | Luis Jorge Medina | Digital Compositors |
| Visual Effects | Luis Jorge Medina | Digital Compositors |
| Camera | Jaime Sampietro | Still Photographer |
| Production | Yuridia Torres | Casting |
| Production | Cortés Lindsey Sara | Casting Assistant |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gilberto Miñón | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gilberto Miñón | Costume Coordinator |
| Editing | Edna Herrera | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Jorge Márquez | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Lynn Fainchtein | Music Supervisor |
| Crew | Hector Salomon | Picture Car Coordinator |
| Production | Alejandro Alvarez | Production Accountant |
| Production | Alexa Aroesty | Assistant Production Coordinator |
| Production | Daniela Sanchez Battenberg | Assistant Production Coordinator |
| Production | Alejandro Peke Correa | Assistant Production Manager |
| Directing | Gabriela Herrera | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Zoé Van Cauwelaert | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Carlos Muñoz Portal | Unit Manager |