
A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.

Alejandro

Jaime

Sara / Stella Díaz Varín
Enrique Lihn

Old Alejandro
Alejandro as a child
Little Girl

General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Maria Lefevre, tarot reader
Alejandro / Andrés Racz

Angel of death
Iris Cafe Old Waiter
Young Hugo Marín
Nicanor Parra
Police Officer
Fanny

Prophetic Drunkard

Poor Lady
Poets Society President
One-armed man
Acariciada

Clown Zanahoria / Circus Ringmaster
Truck Driver

Nene

Enrique Lihn's Mother
Enrique Lihn's Father
Assassinated Worker
Assassin Worker
Drunk Man at Cafe Iris

Clown Lechuga / Balloon Seller
Police Clown 1
Loro Mudo Goon 2
Loro Mudo Goon 4
Exhibitionist
Don Aquiles

Cafe Iris Second Waiter
Delegate
Poet
Poet
Prostitute
Drunkard
Ninja
Executive Producer

Director

Producer
Producer

Screenplay

Executive Producer

Original Music Composer
Executive Producer

Costume Design

Executive Producer
Associate Producer
Casting
Orchestrator
Camera Operator

Editor

Director of Photography
Sound Editor
Supervising Sound Editor

Production Design

Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Art Direction
Art Direction

ADR Coordinator