Guantanamera
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Carlos Cruz
Mirtha Ibarra
Raul Eguren
Jorge Perugorria
Pedro Fernandez
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A successful retiring actress Aunt Yoyita has returned to the town of Guantanamera 50 years after leaving it and her first love, Candido, behind. She is welcomed by her niece, Georgina, who is married to a rigid bureaucrat, Adolfo. Yoyita is touchingly reunited with Candido, who remains as deeply in love with her as he was 50 years ago. Their rekindled passions brings Yoyita to such paroxysms of joy that she promptly dies in his arms. Hoping to advance his career, Adolfo has pioneered a state plan to cut Cuban fuel consumption, which entails transporting corpses to their burial grounds by exchanging the funeral's cortege's vehicles at each town along the way. Yoyita's casket must, therefore, be driven to Havana according to this new system in the company of Georgina, Adolfo, Candido and a chauffeur. By strange series of coincidences, a truck driven by Mariano, a former student of Georgina's, who had fallen in love with her, yet never had the courage to pursue her, is taking the same route.
Cast
Carlos Cruz
Mirtha Ibarra
Raul Eguren
Jorge Perugorria
Pedro Fernandez
Luis Alberto Garcia
Conchita Brando
Suset Perez Malberti
Pedro Fernßndez
Mirta Ibarra
Crew
Walter Achugar
Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Hans Burmann
Frank Cabrera
Eliseo Alberto Diego
Ulrich Felsberg
Carmen Frías
Raul Garcia
Enrique Gonzalez Macho
Gerardo Herrero
Onelia Larralde
Oneliao Larralde
Onelio Larralde
Onelio Larralde
Pepe Nieto
Pepe Nieto
Aurelio Nunez
Alina Pombo
Lourdes Prieto
Juan Carlos Tabio
Camilo Vives
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States 1997
Released in United States April 1997
Released in United States August 1, 1997
Released in United States December 1995
Released in United States January 1996
Released in United States July 25, 1997
Released in United States on Video October 20, 1998
Released in United States Summer July 4, 1997
Shown at 17th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, Cuba December 5-15, 1995.
Shown at Chicago Latino Film Festival April 11-14, 1997.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 26 - October 12, 1997.
Shown at Venice Film Festival (in competition) August 30 - September 9, 1995.
Director Tomas Gutierrez Alea died April 16, 1996 at the age of 69.
Received an honorable mention in the Latin American cinema category at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.
Began shooting December 14, 1994.
Completed shooting February 21, 1995.
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at Venice Film Festival (in competition) August 30 - September 9, 1995.)
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 26 - October 12, 1997.)
Released in United States January 1996 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Premieres) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 1996.)
Released in United States April 1997 (Shown at Chicago Latino Film Festival April 11-14, 1997.)
Released in United States Summer July 4, 1997
Released in United States July 25, 1997 (New York City)
Released in United States August 1, 1997 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video October 20, 1998
Released in United States December 1995 (Shown at 17th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, Cuba December 5-15, 1995.)
