The Penguin Lessons
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$0
Box office
$14 235 885
Director
Actors
Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, Vivian El Jaber, Björn Gustafsson, Alfonsina Carrocio, David Herrero, Micaela Breque, Tomás Pozzi, Ramiro Blas, Juan Barreiro
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Jeff Pope
Producer
Ben Pugh, Robert Walak, Rory Aitken, Adrián Guerra, Andrew Noble, Steve Coogan, Joshua Horsfield, Elizabeth Kormanova, Richard Mansell, Tom Michell
Camera operator
Xavi Giménez
Composer
Artist
Isona Rigau, Jota Rigo
Audition
Sarah Crowe, Alejandro Gil
Editing
Short description
In 1976, as Argentina descends into violence and chaos, a world-weary English teacher regains his compassion for others thanks to an unlikely friendship with a penguin.
What's left behind the scenes
- During filming, actor Steve Coogan, who played Tom, was 58 years old. In reality, the real Tom was only 23 years old at the time. A storyline about Tom's 13-year-old daughter was invented for the film. This is not the first film about penguins to use such a plot device. In 2024, David Schurmann's adventure family drama "My Penguin," starring Jean Reno as a fisherman who lost a child (hence his attachment to the penguin chick), was released. In addition, the screenwriters also invented 19-year-old Sophia.
- The penguin is nicknamed Juan Salvador, which corresponds to the name "Juan Salvador Gaviota," which, in turn, is a Spanish translation of the title of Richard D. Bach's fable "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (1970). It tells the story of a seagull exiled from the flock who devoted himself entirely to studying flight as an art and way of life, and tirelessly perfected his flying skills.
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