The Eagle and the Worm ( 2023 )

Overview

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.

Top Cast

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

Roberto Duarte

Álvaro Guerrero

Ernesto Laguardia

Selma Beraud

Jaime Feinzaig

Victor Chamboir

William Chan Kin Yuk