The Strategy of the Snail

The Strategy of the Snail
Directed bySergio Cabrera
Written byHumberto Dorado
Ramón Jimeno
Sergio Cabrera
Jorge Goldenberg
Produced bySergio Cabrera
Salvo Basile
Sandro Silvestri
StarringCarlos Vives
Humberto Dorado
Florina Lemaitre
Fausto Cabrera
Frank Ramírez
Víctor Mallarino
Production
company
Release date
  • 23 December 1993 (1993-12-23)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryColombia
LanguageSpanish

The Strategy of the Snail (Spanish: La estrategia del caracol) is a 1993 Colombian comedy-drama film co-written, directed and produced by Colombian filmmaker and director Sergio Cabrera. The film stars Frank Ramírez, Florina Lemaitre, Humberto Dorado, Fausto Cabrera and Carlos Vives. The film is a winner of the Berlin International Film Festival and the Biarritz Film Cinema Festival of Latin America. The film is about a group of tenants of an old house in the center of Bogotá who face an illegal eviction by the owner, an arrogant banker. The tenants are led by an untitled lawyer and a Spanish anarchist exile. The film was selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.