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The Gold Bug
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The Gold Bug

2014-08-15 · 100 min · ★ 5.5

Comedy · Drama

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.

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Production details

Directors
Alejo Moguillansky, Fia-Stina Sandlund
Production companies
Milkwood, El Pampero Cine, CPH:DOX, Svenska Filminstitutet
Countries
Argentina, Sweden, Denmark
Status
Released

Top Cast

Rafael SpregelburdRafael Spregelburd
Walter JakobWalter Jakob
Luciana AcuñaLuciana Acuña
Agustina Sario
Matthieu Perpoint
Georg Tielmann
Andrea GarroteAndrea GarroteVictoria Benedictsson
Fernando TurLeandro N. Alem
Guillermo GoldschmidtJosé Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
Saga GärdeSaga Gärdevoice of Victoria Benedictsson
Hugo SantiagoHugo SantiagoVoice of Leandro N. Alem
Fia-Stina Sandlundvoice of the Swede
Mariano LlinásMariano Llinás
Alejo MoguillanskyAlejo Moguillansky
Cleo Moguillansky
Rodrigo Sánchez MariñoLoro

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