Death and the Compass (film)

Death and the Compass (film)
Death and the Compass
Directed by Alex Cox
Produced by Karl Braun
Lorenzo O'Brien
Executive producer
Katsumi Ishikuma
Associate producer
Alejandra Liceaga
Co-executive producer
Miguel Camacho
Diego López Rivera
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Alex Cox
Starring Peter Boyle
Miguel Sandoval
Christopher Eccleston
Music by Pray for Rain
Cinematography Miguel Garzón
Editing by Carlos Puente
Release date(s) August 5, 1992
Running time 96 min
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Language English
Budget $3,500,000 (estimated)

Death and the Compass is British director Alex Cox's second Mexican feature (the first was El Patrullero), made in 1992. Based on the short story Death and the Compass (La Muerte y La Brújula) by Jorge Luis Borges, the film is in English, and stars Peter Boyle as Erik Lönnrot the detective, Miguel Sandoval as Treviranus, his boss, and Christopher Eccleston as Red Scharlach/Alonzo Zunz. Mexican actress Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez appears as Ms. Espinosa/Harlequin.

The crew is the same as that of El Patrullero; the designer is Cecilia Montiel, the cameraman Miguel Garzon, the editor Carlos Puente. Stylistically it is quite different. The colours are impossibly bright, the locations monumental and exaggerated (particularly the police station – a maze of corridors built in Mexico City's main post office and the Convento de San Ildefonso, where Lonnrot meets his end).

Death and the Compass was originally a 55-minute drama made for Spanish TV/BBC in 1992, the quintocentenary year of the Spanish conquest of what is today Latin America. The producer, Karl Braun, found further money from Japan to expand the film into a feature, but the film was not completed until four years after it was shot.

The synthetic 80's "period" soundtrack was composed by Dan Wool and Pray for Rain. The making of the soundtrack is discussed thoroughly in a conversation between Cox and Wool on the DVD release.

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