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Cuba is a 1979 American adventure thriller film directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery, portraying the build-up to the 1958 Cuban Revolution, filmed in Panavision. [2] N 1 ] Neil Sinyard in his The Films of Richard Lester wrote that the film, "developed originally out of an idea of Lester's own, inspired by a conversation with a ...
On 1 October 1936, General Francisco Franco was proclaimed "Leader of Spain" (Spanish: Caudillo de España) in the parts of Spain controlled by the Nationalists (nacionales) after the Spanish Civil War broke out. At the end of the war, on 1 April 1939, Franco took control of the whole of Spain, ending the Second Republic.
A list of the most notable films produced in the Cinema of Spain, ordered by decade and year of release on separate pages. For an alphabetical list of articles on Spanish films, see Category:Spanish films .
Barrio Cuba (Cuba Neighborhood) Humberto Solás: Luisa María Jiménez, Jorge Perugorría, Isabel Santos, Mario Limonta, Adela Legrá, Rafael Lahera: Drama: La memoria de los árboles (Memory of the Trees) Tomás Piard: Drama: Frank Emilio, Amor y Piano (Love and piano) Pavel Giroud: Documentary: Esther Borja: Rapsodia de Cuba (Rhapsody of Cuba ...
The King of Havana (Spanish: El rey de La Habana) is a 2015 Spanish-Dominican drama film directed by Agustí Villaronga which adapts Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's dirty realist novel El rey de La Habana. [1] It stars Maykol David Tortolo, Yordanka Ariosa and Héctor Medina. It is set in the Cuban capital during the Special Period.
Ferdinand VII (Spanish: Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was King of Spain during the early 19th century. He reigned briefly in 1808 and then again from 1813 to his death in 1833.
Santiago,is a 1956 American Warnercolor adventure film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Alan Ladd, Rossana Podestà and Lloyd Nolan.It is set in 1898 Cuba against the background of the Cuban War of Independence.
The Mambo Kings premiered at the Miami International Film Festival on February 7, 1992 [20] before opening in limited release on February 28, 1992. [1] [3] The film expanded to 185 screens on March 13, 1992. [1] By the end of its theatrical run, The Mambo Kings grossed $6,742,168 in North America, [3] well below its $15.5 million budget. [2]