Gauguin & the Canal

Gauguin and The Canal is a Panama movie based in a theater play wrote by Venezuelan author Frank Spano (also the director and the screenwriter). The film is starred by Roberto Brindelli, Monica Grocchi, Juan Carlos Avendaño, Dubaidi Avila, Ash Olivera among others.

Gauguin and the Canal was screening in 67 Seminci Film Festival, 76th Salerno Film Festival in Italy, 39 Chicago Latino Film Festival, and the Marche Du film of Cannes.

The movie had a domestic release on February 29, 2024 in Panama.

Plot
Whilst being a prisoner in his French Polynesian cabin the painter Paul Gauguin was forced to paint a new masterpiece to save his five year old native son's disease and struggles between madness and sanity. He crashed into his memories of Panama, traveling and working in the Canal Construction in 1887 and the guilt of abandoning his family in Paris.

Cast

 * Roberto Brindelli as Gaugain


 * Monica Gronchi as Aline
 * Ash Olivera
 * Dibaidi Avila as Gerdamen #1
 * Juan Carlos Avendaño as Ben

Production
In the year 2005, the author and theater play Frank Spano won the national prize Ricardo Miro by Gaugin & el canal. After that he went to seek funds for the film. After seven drafts he wrote the final script.