The “Gringo”, a foreign secret agent, investigates the presence of radioactivity in lobsters caught by the fishermen of a Caribbean village. While he is resting at the hotel, a cat steals his lobster. The Gringo goes looking for it in the village streets; meanwhile, the film busies itself visually capturing the atmosphere of the place, the roaming dogs, the women cooking, the children and their kites, the heat, the deserted streets…
La langosta azul is the only film in which Gabriel Garcia Marquez was involved, along with other great names of Colombian literature, journalism and art.
