Bitter Sugar (1996)
Azúcar amarga
Cuba today... somewhere between lov and dispair.
A patriot (René Lavan) with a rebellious brother falls in love with a dissident's daughter (Mayte Vilán) in Castro's Cuba.
- Date of release
- 1996-02-10
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Leon Ichaso
Casting
- René Lavan — Gustavo
- Mayte Vilán — Yolanda
- Miguel Gutiérrez — Dr. Tomás Valdez
- Larry Villanueva — Bobby
- Luís Celeiro — Prof. Garcia
- Teresa Maria Rojas — Belkis
- Orestes Matacena — Claudio
- Jorge Pupo — Yiyo
Interesting facts
Azúcar Amarga is a 1996 American-Dominican co-production directed by Cuban filmmaker Leon Ichaso. The film was shot in black-and-white. Filmed in Santo Domingo, and starring a cast of Cuban-American émigrés, it also uses archival footage from Cuba.
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