DETAILS
- Qualification: The people of Universal
- Gender: Comedy/Drama
- Release date: 1993
- Duration: 110 Minutes
SYNOPSIS
Black comedy that takes place in the urban jungle of Bogotá, where everyone has to answer for their own survival, in a chain of disloyalties that, in more than one case, will end with death. Former Police Sergeant Diógenes Hernández is the owner of “La Universal”, a precarious private detective agency, which is based in the same apartment in which he and his wife Fabiola live, who in turn is having an affair with Clemente Fernández. ¸ nephew of Diogenes and also an agency worker. The story begins when Gastón Arzuaga, a Spanish mobster imprisoned in Colombia, hires “La Universal” to monitor his lover, Margarita, a porn film actress.
TRAILER
DISTRIBUTION
- Alvaro Rodríguez as Sergeant Diógenes Hernández
- Jennifer Steffens as Fabiola
- Robinson Díaz as Clemente Fernández
- Ana María Aristizábal as Margarita Quiroz
- Ramón Aguirre as Gastón Arzuaga
- Aitzpea Goenaga as Begoña
- Francois Bassil as Francois
- Juana Mendiola as Begoña's Mother
- Alvaro Bayona as Goalkeeper
- Manuel Boix as Embassy Official
- Pepe Sánchez as Lawyer
- Rubiel Nivia, Alvaro Vargas as Los Rosales
- Ivette Salame as Spontaneous Payphone
- Luis Carlos Restrepo as Shopkeeper
- Carolina Beltrán as Porn Film Box Office
- Carlos Hurtado as Goalkeeper porn movie
- Fernando López as Doctor from Háblame Dirty
- Paul Ospina as Police Sergeant
- Miguel Angel Pazos as Police Station Prisoners
- Vicente Parra as Police Station Prisoners
- César Junco as El Propio
- Margarita Maguso Gutiérrez Mother of the Own
- Manuela Bolívar as Daughter of the Own
- Marta Forero as Fernández's Neighbor
- Juan Carlos Rivera as Fernández's Neighbor
- Carlos Sánchez Méndez as Sergeant in the attack
- Carmen Ruíz as Fabiola's Aunt
- Edivier Benítez as Street Singer
- Carlos Sánchez as Police
- César Badillo as Police
- Gilberto Ramírez as Police
- Agent Nieto as Police
- Daniel Rocha as client Segundon
- Germán Naranjo as Segundon client
- Carlos Aljure as client Segundon
- Gonzalo Florez as Segundon client
- Fernando Arévalo as Segundon client
- Juan Carlos Giraldo as client Segundon
- Edgardo Chávez as Segundon client
- Luz Dary Beltrán as Bureaucrat
- Leonor Carreño as Bureaucrat
- Henry José Sánchez as Bureaucrat
- Viviana Navas as Prostitute
- Yolanda Salgado as Prostitute
- Elsa Patarroyo as Prostitute
- Claudia Rubio as Prostitute
- Carolina Perea as Prostitute
- María Lucía Ascencio as Prostitute
- Sandra Parra as Prostitute
PRODUCTION
- Felipe Aljure: Director and Screenplay
- Guillermo Calle: Assistant Director, Screenwriter and Co-Producer
- Manuel Arias: Screenplay and Executive Producer
- Carlos Guerrero: Executive Producer
- Kroum Manoilov: Executive Producer
- Irene Arzuaga: Field Producer
- Iñaki Ros: Field Producer
- Gonzalo Fernández Berridi: Director of Photography
- Ángel Rodríguez (Tramoya): Photography Assistant
- Olmedo Cardozo: Camera Assistant
- Roberto Cortés: Lighting
- Charlotte Haeger: Art Direction
- Germán Lizarralde: Set Designer and Props/Settings
- Luis Jairo Restrepo: Costumes
- Carlos Arias: Props / Setting
- Helmut Karpf: Makeup
- Leo Burnett: Poster Design
- Valentín Kirilov, Heriberto García, Lina Uribe: Direct Sound
- Pascal Gaigne¸ Lisandro Meza: Music
- Antonio Pérez Reina: Assembly
- Roberto Lázaro, Svetlana Kirilova and Violeta Taikova: Editing Assistant
- Mariela Peña: Still photo
AWARDS AND HONOURS
| Festival | Prize |
| 13th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana | Choral for Best Unpublished Screenplay |
| 11th Bogotá Film Festival | Pre-Columbian Bronze Circle for Best Film |
| Our Essence Latin American Film Festival | Best Actor to Álvaro Rodríguez |
| Our Essence Latin American Film Festival | Best Original Screenplay |
| Uruguayan International Film Festival | Special Mention from the Jury |
