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The Gold Bug

The Gold Bug

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 15, 2014

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

El escarabajo de oro

Production Companies

Milkwood, El Pampero Cine, CPH:DOX, Svenska Filminstitutet

Director

Fia-Stina Sandlund

Description

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.