Conquistadors of Cuba
Finland / Switzerland, January 2005
FILM,
Documentary,
91 min.
- directed by
- Arto Halonen
- Written by
- Arto Halonen
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.kuubanvalloittajat.com/eng_down.html
Nearly blind Maximiliano, 62, has been given an important task. He has been asked to fix Che Guevara's old car in Havana. Maximiliano's passion are the old American cars and the car, which he owns has the engine of the car of Fulgencio Batista, the former dictator of Cuba. Maximiliano's friend, Mario Borges, owns an old American car that used to belong to mobster Meyer Lansky whose fate interlaced closely with Batista and Che Guevara. A film about three historical cars and their current owners. It is also a touching story of a man with two faces, the very image of the soul of Cuba and a film about the beauty and greatness of ordinary people under the pressure of changing regimes.
credits
- World Premiere
- January 2005
- Original Version
- Spanish (english subtitles), colour and b/w, 35mm, 91 min.
- Production
- Art Films Production AFP Oy, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Elephant Films, YLE TV2
- Producer
- Arto Halonen
- directed by
- Arto Halonen
- Written by
- Arto Halonen
- Cinematography
- Jari Pollari
- Editing
- Jukka Nykänen, Timo Peltola, Arto Halonen
- Music
- Tuomas Kantelinen
- Location Sound Mix
- Heikki Innanen
- Animation
- Mete Ufacik
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Art Films Production AFP Oy
Festivals
(a selection)
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Nyon, 11. Visions du réel - Festival international de cinéma
18.04.2005 - 24.04.2005