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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Humberto Jiménez (writer)
Fernando Pérez (writer)
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Release Date:
18 June 1999 (Spain) more
Tagline:
Tres historias, tres personajes y un fin común: la búsqueda de la felicidad en La Habana de hoy.
Plot:
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs... more | add synopsis
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17 wins & 3 nominations more
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poetic yet full of life and real people more (8 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | José Andrade | ... | Obrero Teatro |
| Maudelet Badia | ... | Odalisca 2 |
| Elena Bolaños | ... | Anciana Asilo |
| Rolando Brito | ... | Dr. Fernando |
| Alina Canizares | ... | Profesora 1 |
| Annieye Cárdenas | ... | Desmayados |
| Leandro Carfuso | ... | Elpidito |
| Ines Maria Castillo | ... | Cuba Valdes |
| Ileana Chávez | ... | Secretaria 1 |
| Michaelis Cue | ... | Hombrecito |
| Miguel A. Daranas | ... | Director Asilo |
| Aramís Delgado | ... | Vigon |
| Aimeé Despaigne | ... | Profesora 2 |
 | Veronica Diaz | ... | Cándida |
| Luis Alberto García | ... | Elpidio Valdes |
| Madeleine Garcia | ... | Secretaria 2 |
| Monica Guffanti | ... | Mme. Garces |
| Daniel Jordan | ... | Anciano Asilo |
| Tito Junco | ... | Santero |
| Norma Kent | ... | Turista en taxi |
| Deborah Marquez | ... | Odalisca 3 |
| Jorge Molina | ... | Cycle Driver |
| Luis Ubaldo Penitez | ... | Settimio |
| Bebe Pérez | ... | Bebe |
| Ilsy Perez | ... | Desmayados |
| Liliana Perez | ... | Odalisca 1 |
| Liliana Pérez | ... | Odalisca 1 |
| Raúl Pomares | ... | Taxista |
| Manuel Porto | ... | Taxista que llora |
| Juan Manuel Reyes | ... | Ismael |
| Claudia Rojas | ... | Mariana |
| Zoraida Rosario | ... | Mujer orfelinato |
| Roberto Salas | ... | Desmayados |
| Isabel Santos | ||
| Radel Vazquez | ... | Partenaire |
| Coralia Veloz | ... | Julia |
| Gleydis Viera | ... | Marianita |
| José Ramón Vigo | ... | Desmayados |
| Ángel Zaldivar | ... | Desmayados |
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Also Known As:
Life Is to Whistle (USA)
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Runtime:
106 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:M18 | Taiwan:R-12 | Finland:K-10 | France:U | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud)
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This films shows how political censorship enriches artists' imagination and visual language and the entire narrative needed in cinema. Perez was not able to say IT aloud and therefore he says it with beautiful metaphors. People in film have severe attacks of yawn, lustful fantasies and fainting. These are no signs of fatigue or desire but of things not having space enough to become true in a totalitarian society. There are words and ideas not being said aloud anymore: freedom, love; as also those which struck us like hammer on head: sex, hypocrisy, life-lies. People have their strategies to survive until the day someone says it aloud.