El Fausto criollo (1979)
1h 18m
Running Time
October 25, 1979Release Date
El Fausto criollo (1979)
1h 18m
Running Time
October 25, 1979Release Date
Plot.
An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.
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Cast & Crew.
Eva Franco
Claudio García Satur
María Valenzuela
Pedro Quartucci
Luisa Vehil
Luis Medina Castro
Erika Wallner
Héctor Pellegrini
Eduardo Galán
Gerardo Romano
Romualdo Quiroga
Armando Blanco
Editor
Arsenio Reinaldo Pica
Cinematographer
Víctor Proncet
Music
Rinaldo Arsenio Pica
Cinematography
Juan Romano
Art Direction
Luis Saslavsky
Writer / Director
Emilio Basaldúa
Art Direction
Héctor Basaldúa
Art Direction
Julián Aguirre
Music
Horacio Reale
Assistant Director
Augusto Valentino
Executive Producer
Charles Gounod
Music
Mene Arnó
Costume Designer
Details.
Wiki.
El Fausto criollo ("The Creole Faust") is a 1979 Argentine fantasy drama film directed by Luis Saslavsky and Miguel Angel Lumaldo. 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 García Satur, María Valenzuela, Pedro Quartucci, Luisa Vehil and Gerardo Romano. Oscar Aráiz was in charge of the film's choreography. It was filmed in Eastmancolor and released on October 25, 1979.