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Overview

User Rating:
7.3/10   334 votes
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Writers:
Carlos Bosch (writer)
David Trueba (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
12 April 2002 (Spain) more
Genre:
Documentary
Plot:
The story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed. | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Fantastic and realistic summary of Cuba today more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Guillermo Armas ... Himself
Maria Celeste Arraras ... Herself (archive footage)
Rafael Cano ... Himself
Fidel Castro ... Himself (archive footage)

Bill Clinton ... Himself (archive footage)
Miriam Hernández ... Herself
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cuban Rafters (Canada: English title) (International: English title)
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Runtime:
120 min
Country:
Spain
Language:
Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Cuba more
Company:
Bausan Films more

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Featured in The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004) (TV) more

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1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Fantastic and realistic summary of Cuba today, 13 February 2006
9/10
Author: mrflaleather05 from United States

Although I was born in Miami, my family is from Cuba. When I visited the country of my parents 3 years ago (from Havana to Pinar Del Rio trips), I was overcome with a deep sadness as to how pitiful the international media has covered the plight of Cubans on the island. Finally! This movie captures it all too well and so realistically, so accurately, so heroically!

It's about time!

Regardless of how one feels about Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton and the changes the US has made on Cuba's refugee policies, the people of Cuba live in absolute misery. No other 3rd world country in the Western Hemisphere has so much misery as Cuba. Economic poverty is not Cuba's worst problem. Misery is! Everywhere I went people on the island of Cuba lived in misery, fear, mistrust, suspicion, a basic ethos are missing, a will to live is gone, anxiety, depression, loneliness, desperateness and more.

If you want to understand the situation in Cuba as it is today, watch this film.

Pity that Hollywood films in America don't report the truth as it is, without getting bogged down on their stupid political self-righteous statements from their comfortable palatial Hollywood homes.

Watch this movie. It's great!

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