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The Gold Bug
The Gold Bug
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THE GOLD BUG

El escarabajo de oro

Directed by Alejo Moguillansky, Fia-Stina Sandlund
Argentina, Denmark, 2014
Drama

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.

Our take

Moguillansky—co-editing with Mariano Llinás, co-directing with Fia-Stina Sandlund, and writing with both!—leaps from The Parrot’s take on documentary-making into an even more undefinable mixture of genres, connecting moviemaking to treasure hunting, national history and politics.