The Gold Bug

El escarabajo de oro

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.

Director

Alejo Moguillansky

Director

Fia-Stina Sandlund

Screenplay

Alejo Moguillansky

Screenplay

Mariano Llinás

Status

Released

Release date

15/08/2014

Original language

Spanish