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Suite Habana is a 2003 Cuban documentary directed and written by Fernando Pérez.. The documentary was filmed with fictional cinema techniques depicting a day in a life of thirteen real people, from a ten-year-old child with Down syndrome to a 79-year-old lady who sells peanuts in the street.
Burt journeys to Havana to interview local Jews in 1994, five years into the Special Period. She films excited activity over the local rebirth of the faith, but also the daily hardships of life under a national economy on the brink of collapse. A halt in Soviet material subsidies means that food, gasoline, electricity and medicine are all scarce.
Howard Feinstein, from Screen Daily, said: "In a film that has taken Cuba by storm and is in the midst of a streak of overseas awards, former documentarian Daranas smoothly pulls together dual journeys that might not otherwise intersect so credibly. […] Reception should be positive, with such pluses as first-rate performances, especially ...
Though in other cities people took to the streets to celebrate, in Havana, the usually lively atmosphere is "subdued." In the summer of 2015, the US and Cuba began finalizing the long process of ...
Cosas que dejé en La Habana (Things I Left Behind in Havana) Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón: Broselianda Hernández, Isabel Santos, Daisy Granados, Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto García: 1998: La Vida es Silbar (Life is a whistle) Fernando Pérez: Luis Alberto García, Coralia Veloz, Rolando Brito and Isabel Santos: Angelito mío (Little Angel of ...
Havana is a 1990 American drama film starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin and Raul Julia, directed by Sydney Pollack with music by Dave Grusin.The film's plot concerns Jack Weil (Redford), an American professional gambler who decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble in 1958 on the eve of the Cuban Revolution.
La Vida es Silbar - Life is a Whistle (Fernando Pérez, 1998) Lista de Espera - The Waiting List (Juan Carlos Tabío, 2000) Suite Habana - Havana Suite (Fernando Pérez, 2003) Habana Blues - Havana Blues (Benito Zambrano, 2005) El Benny - (Jorge Luis Sánchez, 2006) Los dioses rotos - Fallen Gods (Ernesto Daranas, 2008)
The movie, premiering this month, is based on real events in the early 1990s, when a group of young people in Cuba were looking for freedom from government repression.