Cassandro poster

Cassandro( 2023)

TV-MADrama
67%
User
Score

Changing the game, one match at a time.

Overview

The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Gael García Bernal

      Saúl "Cassandro"

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      Roberta Colindrez

      Sabrina

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      Perla de la Rosa

      Yocasta

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      Joaquín Cosío

      Lorenzo

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      Raúl Castillo

      Gerardo

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      El Hijo del Santo

      El Hijo del Santo

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      Bad Bunny

      Felipe

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      Gigántico

      Murder Clown

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      Yavor Vesselinov

      Pete

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      Leonardo Alonso

      El Mysterioso

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      Carmen Ledesma

      Rosie

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      Javier Escobar

      Masked Massacre

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      Lorenzo Constantini

      Cousin Thiago

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      Jorge Andrés Zerecero

      Young Saúl

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      Robert Salas

      Eduardo

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      Ronald Gonzales-Trujillo

      Young Eduardo

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      Sofía Félix

      Young Yocasta

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      Eduardo Cayetano

      Diablo

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      Joseph Gabriel Rodríguez

      Ruben

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      Julieta Ortiz

      Candance

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      Mark Vasconcellos

      Dante

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      Yolanda Abbud L.

      Older Maid

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      Víctor Ismael Pinillos

      CD Juarez Announcer

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      Norman Elizondo

      Man at CDMX Club

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      Luis J. Sánchez

      El Paso TX Announcer

    Social

    Review 1Discussion

    A review by CinemaSerf

    7
    Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Sep 20 2023
    Gael García Bernal is great in this entertaining biopic of the eponymous wrestler who rose from Texan oblivion and poverty to international acclaim. We learn fairly early on that he and his mother "Jocasta" (Perla De La Rosa) get by after his father abandoned them by working loads of different jobs and by him taking on the role of an "exotico" - a sort of "glamour" wrestler - in a makeshift garage where his job is to camp things up and then get beaten by a guy twice his size. Aside from the fact that it hurts, he decides that he wants a new home for him and his mum, and that he also has the ski...

    Media

    Videos 7Backdrops 8Posters 13

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • sports
    • transvestite
    • entertainer
    • texas
    • wrestling
    • biography
    • based on true story
    • lgbt
    • mexican
    • mother son relationship