The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
La dictadura perfecta
Television has already appointed a president... Will it do it again?
143 min
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
- Release date
- October 16, 2014
- Country of origin
- Mexico
Where to watch
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Trailer
Cast
- Damián Alcázar as Gobernador Carmelo Vargas
- Alfonso Herrera as Productor
- Joaquín Cosio as Líder de la oposición
- Osvaldo Benavides as Reportero
- Silvia Navarro as Mamá
- Flavio Medina as Papá
- Saúl Lisazo as Conductor
- Tony Dalton as Director TV. MX.
- Salvador Sánchez as Hombre X
- Enrique Arreola as Secretario de Gobierno
- Arath de la Torre as Vocero
- Dagoberto Gama as Procurador
- Noé Hernández as Jefe de seguridad
- Sonia Couoh as Nana Gemelas
- María Rojo as Doña Chole
- Luis Fernando Peña as El Chamoy
- Gustavo Sánchez Parra as El Charro
- Sergio Mayer as El Presidente
- Hernán Mendoza as El Mazacote
- Livia Brito as Jazmín
- Itatí Cantoral as Lucrecia Lascurain
- Jorge Poza as Rafael Lascurain
- Roger Cudney as Embajador USA
- Ingrid Martz as Secretaria vicepresidencia TV MX
- Johanna Murillo as Secretaria dirección TV MX
- Javier Escobar as El Mapache
- Sophie Alexander-Katz as Reportera
- Ernesto Gómez Cruz as Señor Humilde
Crew
- Luis Estrada · Director
- Luis Estrada · Writer
- Jaime Sampietro · Writer
- Luis Estrada · Producer
- Javier Aguirresarobe · Cinematographer
- Mariana Rodríguez · Editor
- Sandra León Becker · Casting director
- Salvador Parra · Production designer