''The Mongolian Conspiracy'' (

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: ''El complot Mongol'', ) is a 2018 Mexican

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film written and directed by Sebastián del Amo. Starring

Damián Alcázar Damián Alcázar (born January 8, 1953) is a Mexican actor and politician, who is best known outside of Mexico as Lord Sopespian in '' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian''. He was a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City. Caree ...

Bárbara Mori Bárbara Mori Ochoa () (born 2 February 1978) is a Uruguayan-born Mexican actress, model, producer and writer. She is known for playing the main character in the 2004 telenovela '' Rubí,'' one of the most successful telenovelas of all time. Sin ...

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and Xavier 'Chabelo' López. It is based on the crime novel of the same name by Rafael Bernal.

Synopsis

Filiberto García is a judicial policeman who will have to investigate and dismantle a criminal case:

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has a plan to assassinate

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during his visit to

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Cast

The actors participating in this film are: *

as Filiberto García *

as Martita Fong *

as Rosendo del Valle * Xavier 'Chabelo' López as The Coronel * Roberto Sosa as The Graduate * Ari Brickman as Richard Graves * Moisés Arizmendi as Iván M. Laski * Rodrigo Murray as General Crispín Miraflores *

Gustavo Sánchez Parra Gustavo Sánchez Parra (born 30 September 1966) is a Mexican actor. He has appeared in more than ninety films since 2000. Selected filmography References External links * 1966 births Living people Mexican male film actors {{ ...

as Fu Manchú *

Lisa Owen Lisa Dian Owen Wyckoff (born 8 July 1965), known professionally as Lisa Owen, is a Mexican actress and writer. She is best known for her role as "Doña Alba" in the hit Telemundo telenovela ''El Señor de los Cielos ''El Señor de los Cielos ...

as Annabella Crawford * Hector Kotsifakis as Luciano Manrique * Salvador Sánchez as Mr. Liu * Enrique Arreola as "El Sapo" * Ramón Medína as Roque Villegas * Beng Zeng Wong as Javier Liú *

Dobrina Cristeva Dobrina Liubomirova Stoylova Anguelova known as Dobrina Cristeva (; bg, Добрина Кръстева ; Sofia, Bulgaria, October 9, 1968) is a Bulgarian- Mexican actress. She immigrated to Mexico in 1976, when she was 8 years old. She starte ...

as Russian Spy *

Hugo Stiglitz Hugo Stiglitz López, better known simply as Hugo Stiglitz, (born August 28, 1940, in Mexico City) is a Mexican actor. Stiglitz is perhaps most well known for his film roles in the 1970s and 1980s in Mexico in such horror films as '' Tintorera' ...

as Himself * Diana Lein as Esther Ramírez * Mauricio Isaac as The receptionist * Sebastian del Amo as Gringo Spy 1 * Alejandro Barron as Gringo Spy 2 * Eugenio Elizondo as Bartender

Production

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began on August 17, 2017 and ended on September 19 of the same year in

Release

''The Mongolian Conspiracy'' had its world premiere on October 26, 2018, at the 8th Guadalajara International Film Festival in

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. It had its commercial premiere on April 18, 2019, in Mexican theaters.

Reception

Critical reception

On the

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, 45% of 11 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.9/10. Arturo Magaña from ''Cine Premiere'' praised the acting work of the main cast, especially the performance of Damián Alcázar who manages to play a fun and wild role. It also positively highlights the script work that takes up elements of national black cinema. On the other hand, Rafael Rosales Santos from ''Konexion'' criticizes the plot of the film that becomes incoherent because of its director, the editing full of cuts that makes it uncomfortable and subtracts the performances from the cast, and the photography full of close-ups that makes it uncomfortable.

Accolades

References

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