Cuba

Cuba (1979)

Part Heaven... Part Hell... Pure Havana.

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.

Date of release
1979-12-21
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (54)
Runtime
2h 2m
Genres
Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Adventure, War
Director
Richard Lester

Casting

Interesting facts

Cuba is a 1979 American adventure action film directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery, portraying the build-up to the 1958 Cuban Revolution, filmed in Panavision. Lester developed the film out of a conversation with a friend, with significant influence from the 1942 film Casablanca.

Production

Cuba was shot in Spain in December 1978. The same historical events were featured five years earlier in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II and would be covered again by Sydney Pollack in his 1990 film Havana, starring Robert Redford. Lester's film was perhaps the most stylish of the three, aided by its stirring Spanish locations, "with a marvelous sense of atmosphere".

Diana Ross was offered the female lead but turned it down. Brooke Adams, who had just received acclaim for Days of Heaven, was cast instead.

North American TB-25N Mitchell s/n 44-29121, N86427

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