Chico & Rita

Chico & Rita (2010)

Do you know this guy?

Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.

Date of release
2010-11-19
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (258)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Animation, Music, Romance
Director
Fernando Trueba, Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: €9.2
  • Awards: 3 · Nominations: 6. Including: Gaudí Award for Best Animated Feature Film; Goya Award for Best Animated Film; European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film

Chico and Rita is a 2010 adult animated romantic drama film directed by Tono Errando, Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. The story of Chico and Rita is set against backdrops of Havana, New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite them, but their journey—in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero—brings heartache and torment. The film was produced by Fernando Trueba Producciones, Estudio Mariscal, and Magic Light Pictures. It received financing from CinemaNX and Isle of Man Film.

Production

Before drawing the locations in Cuba, Mariscal completed an intense research trip. Although many of Havana's pre-revolutionary buildings had decayed, either deliberately or from neglect, the filmmakers discovered that the Havana city government had assembled an archive of photographs to help with street repairs. Pictures of every street corner in Havana since 1949 were archived, conveying the look and mood of the era.

Principal production took place entirely on the Isle of Man.

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