Música para los Dientes

1997 • Directed by

Ricardo Tenaud

Based on the life of the Lima crier Don Leónidas Gonzales in charge of the production of the traditional Revolución Caliente crispy cookie. He says that with a kerosene lamp in his hand at six in the afternoon he toured the squares of Miraflores, Magdalena and Barranco, shouting in a singsong voice: “Revolución Caliente, music for the teeth; sugar, cloves and cinnamon, to grind the teeth. perhaps he is the last vestige of a tradition.