Conquistadors of Cuba

Finland / Switzerland, January 2005
FILM, Documentary, 91 min.

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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.

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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 TV - Finnish Broadcasting Company
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

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Art Films Production AFP Oy

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