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.
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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 García Satur
Daniel Fanego
María Valenzuela
Luisa Vehil
Eva Franco
Eduardo Galán
Gerardo Romano
Erika Wallner
Luis Medina Castro
Héctor Pellegrini
Pedro Quartucci
Romualdo Quiroga