The Gold Bug

The Gold Bug

100 mins | Drama, Comedy | Aug. 15, 2014

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.

The Gold Bug

100 mins | Drama, Comedy | Aug. 15, 2014

The Gold Bug
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Svenska Filminstitutet, El Pampero Cine, CPH:DOX, Milkwood
Original title El escarabajo de oro
Directors Fia-Stina Sandlund, Alejo Moguillansky
Writers Fia-Stina Sandlund, Mariano Llinás, Alejo Moguillansky

Cast

Andrea Garrote

as Victoria Benedictsson

Fernando Tur

as Leandro N. Alem

Guillermo Goldschmidt

as José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia

Saga Gärde

as voice of Victoria Benedictsson

Hugo Santiago

as Voice of Leandro N. Alem

Fia-Stina Sandlund

as voice of the Swede