Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Cuba, Russia
Why tonight?
- In Spanish — subtitles on.
The story
A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.
- rebellion
- police
- cuba
- propaganda
- peace
- peasant
- surrealism
- cuban revolution
- wealth
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Luz María Collazo — Maria / Betty
- Jean Bouise — Jim
- Alberto Morgan — Ángel
- Fausto Mirabal
- Roberto García York — American Activist
- María de las Mercedes Díez
- Bárbara Domínguez
- Jesús del Monte
- Luisa María Jiménez Rodríquez — Teresa
- Mario González Broche — Pablo
- Tony López
- Directed
- Mikhail Kalatozov
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 254 ratings
- Studio
- ICAIC, Mosfilm
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
