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.
Directed by Fia-Stina Sandlund · Written by Fia-Stina Sandlund
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Cast
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Rafael Spregelburd -
Walter Jakob -
Luciana Acuña - Agustina Sario
- Matthieu Perpoint
- Georg Tielmann
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Andrea Garrote Victoria Benedictsson - Fernando Tur Leandro N. Alem
- Guillermo Goldschmidt José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
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Saga Gärde voice of Victoria Benedictsson -
Hugo Santiago Voice of Leandro N. Alem - Fia-Stina Sandlund voice of the Swede
Make it a double feature
3h 10m together
The Gold Bug
Shrek
A close match in mood and era.
