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'El Fausto criollo' ("The Creole Faust") is a 1979 Argentine fantasy drama film directed by Luis Saslavsky and Miguel Angel Lumaldo.[https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film804094.html 'El Fausto criollo'] FilmAffinity It was written by Saslavsky with the collaboration of Estela Canto, Luisa Mercedes Levinson and Enrique Anderson Imbert, and based on the novel 'El Fausto Criollo', by Estanislao del Campo. It stars Claudio Garca Satur, Mara Valenzuela, Pedro Quartucci, Luisa Vehil and Gerardo Romano. Oscar Ariz was in charge of the film's choreography. It was filmed in Eastmancolor and released on October 25, 1979.

Synopsis



Anastasio, a.k.a. "El Pollo" (The Chicken), narrates to a gaucho named Laguna the performance of the opera 'Faust', which he has just seen on a representation at a Buenos Aires theatre. Suddenly real life and fiction intersperse, with Anastasio imagining a similar story in La Pampa, while assuming the personality of the protagonist at the moment when the character signs his pact with the Devil.

Cast



* Claudio Garca Satur

* Daniel Fanego

* Mara Valenzuela

* Luisa Vehil

* Eva Franco

* Eduardo Galn

* Gerardo Romano

* Erika Wallner

* Luis Medina Castro

* Hctor Pellegrini

* Pedro Quartucci

* Romualdo Quiroga

References




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