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- BFI identifier438382
- Date1995 (Copyright)
- Production countrySpain, Cuba, Germany
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- SynopsisPolitical satire dealing with the aftermath of the Cuban financial crisis of the early 1990s. An ageing singer who has earned her fortune abroad returns, but dies in the arms of her lover. The bureaucrat husband of her unhappily married niece has organised a petrol-saving relay scheme for Havana burials and finds that escorting the body is its first test. On the road they encounter a truck driver who, as a student had fallen in love with his lecturer, the niece. (Synopsis) Cuban road movie comedy about a civil servant and his journey from Guantanamo escorting the body of his wife's aunt back to Havana for burial. On the road he and his wife, Georgina, meet lorry driver Mariano who, in his youth, had been in love with Georgina. (Synopsis)
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GUANTANAMERA (Original)
Category
Non Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
16mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Status pending
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- StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-2490468
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-2490469
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view all - ArticlesPremiere n233 August 1996 - Credits, ReviewPositif n427 September 1996 - ReviewVariety 18 Sep 1995 - Credits, ReviewKinetoscopio n34 Nov/Dec 1995 - Credits, ReviewCineAction! n39 December 1995 - Articleview all
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Work - 438382 - 1995 (Copyright)
Spain - Film - Non Fiction
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