
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.

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