The Peruvian filmmaker Elsa Cavo was born in Lima in 1951 and lives and works in Paris. Following studies in classical letters at the Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, she took courses in film in the Architecture program of the fine arts department and from 1970 to 1973 studied theatre at the Universidad Nacional de Santiago, Chile. In 1982, in Paris, she made her first fiction film, Qui vole un oeuf, vole un boeuf, and in 1983 made Le Java, which was presented at the Locarno film festival, and Nez, Gorge, Oreilles, which showed at the San Sebastian film festival. In 1985, in co-production with the INA, the CNAP and the MAE, she made a new fiction film, this time at the Louvre : Que sais-je?.