Acting

Salvador Wood

Born November 24, 1928 · Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Died June 1, 2019 · aged 90

Nació el 24 de noviembre de 1928, en Santiago de Cuba, donde mismo nació su compañera de la vida, Yolanda. Sus padres eran santiagueros y por la estirpe paterna de los Wood, fue el único que tuvo el coraje de ser actor de teatro, de radio, de televisión y de cine. Llegó a La Habana en 1946, en busca de un espacio que tuviera una mayor resonancia nacional, aunque estaba convencido de que el munic…

Known For

I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba · 1964

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.

Death of a Bureaucrat

Death of a Bureaucrat · 1966

Death of a Bureaucrat

A model Cuban revolutionary tragically dies at work and, as a badge of honor, is buried with his labor card in his suit pocket. When his widow attempts to apply for his pension, the pension office demands the original labor card. Desperate, his nephew embarks on an increasingly chaotic and surreal quest through the Cuban bureaucratic system to secure permission to exhume the body, only to be met with endless forms, contradictory regulations, and apathetic officials.

Tres veces dos

Tres veces dos · 2004

Film formed by three stories: Flash by Pavel Giroud, in which a photographer sees strange apparitions in his photographs; Lila by Lester Hamlet, on the forbidden love between a young couple; and Luz roja by Esteban Insausti, about two characters who begin an affair after they met by chance in a traffic hold-up.

Ballade vom roten Mohn

Ballade vom roten Mohn · 1965

Ballade vom roten Mohn

MovieDramaHistory

Spain in the 1930s. The film tells of the fight of international troops against General Franco's army. It tells of the fate of three brigadists, the American Gary, the German Hans and the Englishman Joe, who are taken prisoner by Franco's army. Their attitude in this difficult situation is a living example of international solidarity and creates a memorial.

Jíbaro

Jíbaro · 1985

The first years of the Cuban Revolution characterized by social transformations and class struggles.

Patty Candela

Patty Candela · 1976

Based on actual events, the film dramatizes the efforts of Cuban counterintelligence services in response to Operation Patty, a CIA plot to assassinate Raúl Castro.

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I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba · 1964

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.

Mariano

Death of a Bureaucrat

Death of a Bureaucrat · 1966

Death of a Bureaucrat

A model Cuban revolutionary tragically dies at work and, as a badge of honor, is buried with his labor card in his suit pocket. When his widow attempts to apply for his pension, the pension office demands the original labor card. Desperate, his nephew embarks on an increasingly chaotic and surreal quest through the Cuban bureaucratic system to secure permission to exhume the body, only to be met with endless forms, contradictory regulations, and apathetic officials.

Nephew

Tres veces dos

Tres veces dos · 2004

Film formed by three stories: Flash by Pavel Giroud, in which a photographer sees strange apparitions in his photographs; Lila by Lester Hamlet, on the forbidden love between a young couple; and Luz roja by Esteban Insausti, about two characters who begin an affair after they met by chance in a traffic hold-up.

Ballade vom roten Mohn

Ballade vom roten Mohn · 1965

Ballade vom roten Mohn

MovieDramaHistory

Spain in the 1930s. The film tells of the fight of international troops against General Franco's army. It tells of the fate of three brigadists, the American Gary, the German Hans and the Englishman Joe, who are taken prisoner by Franco's army. Their attitude in this difficult situation is a living example of international solidarity and creates a memorial.

Jíbaro

Jíbaro · 1985

The first years of the Cuban Revolution characterized by social transformations and class struggles.

Patty Candela

Patty Candela · 1976

Based on actual events, the film dramatizes the efforts of Cuban counterintelligence services in response to Operation Patty, a CIA plot to assassinate Raúl Castro.