The Gold Bug
6.5
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.
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Cast
19 people
Rafael Spregelburd
Known for
The Man of Your Dreams
Perdida
Walter Jakob
Known for
Extraordinary Stories
White Elephant
Gabriel Chwojnik
Agustín Gagliardi
Known for
(Un)lucky Sisters
Trenque Lauquen
Luciana Acuña
Also in
The Parrot and the Swan
La Flor
Agustín Mendilaharzu
Agustina Sario
Matthieu Perpoint
Also in
For the Money
Maldito seas Waterfall
Georg Tielmann
Andrea Garrote
Victoria Benedictsson
Known for
(Un)lucky Sisters
The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime
Fernando Tur
Leandro N. Alem
Also in
Pin de Fartie
La muerte de Marga Maier
Guillermo Goldschmidt
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
Alejo Moguillansky Director · Fia-Stina Sandlund Director Mariano Llinás Writer
Worldwide gross $1.7K · First release April 1, 2014 · Produced in Argentina, Sweden, Denmark
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,669
Production
Milkwood
Production
El Pampero Cine
Production
CPH:DOX
Production
Svenska Filminstitutet
Production
Det Danske Filminstitut
Production
Argentina · Sweden · Denmark
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Languages
Original title
El escarabajo de oro
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
English · Spanish · Swedish
Release dates
Argentina · April 1, 2014
BAFICI - Buenos Aires Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Austria
October 29, 2014 · Vienna International Film Festival
France
October 18, 2014 · La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival
Germany
September 27, 2014 · Hamburg Film Festival
Greece
November 1, 2014 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Sweden
January 26, 2015 · Göteborg Film Festival
Switzerland
August 15, 2014 · Theatrical
Türkiye
April 9, 2015 · Istanbul Film Festival
United Kingdom
October 13, 2014 · London Film Festival
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