Acting

Patricio Wood

Born January 31, 1961 · La Habana - Cuba (age 65)

Hijo de padres actores, sus primeras actuaciones se producen en programas televisivos (Los comandos del silencio, 1968) y en teatro infantil, llegando a interpretar un personaje protagónico en el filme cubano El Brigadista, de Octavio Cortázar (Oso de Plata en el Festival de Berlín Occidental, 1978). Desde el estreno de este filme ha actuado ininterrumpidamente en todos los medios. Ingresó en el …

Known For

Che

Biopic about revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara.

Estrés

It's an open wound. With Estrés, Marilyn Solaya doesn't seek to tell stories: she exposes them, shakes them up, leaves them unanesthetized. In six intertwined stories, the director turns everyday life into an emotional battlefield, where poverty, love, illness, and dignity clash relentlessly.

Nora

The true story of a woman who infiltrates a spy network and defends her determination to complete her mission to the very end. It will recreate the atmosphere of the 1990s and will be set in the capital city, the tourist resort of Varadero, and the Ciénaga de Zapata.

Boccaccerías Habaneras

Boccaccerías Habaneras · 2013

Boccaccerías Habaneras

Three stories, loosely inspired on short stories from classic Boccaccio’s Decameron, are connected by a creatively-bankrupt writer who offers money in exchange for original subjects.

Alias Bambi C-4

Alias Bambi C-4 · 2016

Alias Bambi C-4

A hit man of international prestige arrives in Caracas to carry out a political attack without knowing the identity of the victim. From the Illegal Immigrant Detention Center, El Paso, Texas, terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, alias Bambi C4, gets into the action, while revealing his activities in Venezuela and all of Latin America during its most active and deadly period.

Guardafronteras

Guardafronteras · 1980

Guardafronteras

A squad of young Cuban armed forces recruits are tasked with defending a strategic key north of Cuba. The fraught relationships between the young soldiers and the sergeant who leads them transform as they discover his human qualities during training and learn discipline in the harsh conditions of their post.

Horn of Plenty

Horn of Plenty · 2008

MovieComedyDrama

An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.

¿Por qué lloran mis amigas?

¿Por qué lloran mis amigas? · 2017

¿Por qué lloran mis amigas?

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Che

Biopic about revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara.

Estrés

It's an open wound. With Estrés, Marilyn Solaya doesn't seek to tell stories: she exposes them, shakes them up, leaves them unanesthetized. In six intertwined stories, the director turns everyday life into an emotional battlefield, where poverty, love, illness, and dignity clash relentlessly.

Nora

The true story of a woman who infiltrates a spy network and defends her determination to complete her mission to the very end. It will recreate the atmosphere of the 1990s and will be set in the capital city, the tourist resort of Varadero, and the Ciénaga de Zapata.

Boccaccerías Habaneras

Boccaccerías Habaneras · 2013

Boccaccerías Habaneras

Three stories, loosely inspired on short stories from classic Boccaccio’s Decameron, are connected by a creatively-bankrupt writer who offers money in exchange for original subjects.

Inocencio

Alias Bambi C-4

Alias Bambi C-4 · 2016

Alias Bambi C-4

A hit man of international prestige arrives in Caracas to carry out a political attack without knowing the identity of the victim. From the Illegal Immigrant Detention Center, El Paso, Texas, terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, alias Bambi C4, gets into the action, while revealing his activities in Venezuela and all of Latin America during its most active and deadly period.

Guardafronteras

Guardafronteras · 1980

Guardafronteras

A squad of young Cuban armed forces recruits are tasked with defending a strategic key north of Cuba. The fraught relationships between the young soldiers and the sergeant who leads them transform as they discover his human qualities during training and learn discipline in the harsh conditions of their post.

Horn of Plenty

Horn of Plenty · 2008

MovieComedyDrama

An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.

Agustín

¿Por qué lloran mis amigas?

¿Por qué lloran mis amigas? · 2017

¿Por qué lloran mis amigas?

Last Days in Havana

Last Days in Havana · 2016

Last Days in Havana

The story of a friendship in a city on the verge of substantial change. Miguel dreams of settling in New York while he waits for a visa that never seems to arrive, and Diego, a HIV-positive homosexual man, puts his dreams and cheerfulness to good use in his struggle to carry on enjoying every single day of his life from a rickety old bed in his small bedroom.

Miguel

Black Island

Black Island · 1996

The story of a friendship between two girls of different races, Susana and Rita, in Equatorial Guinea, from 1950 to 1961. Susana discovers with her friend a fascinating but troubled new world in Africa, where she comes of age and experiences love and sex.

Diego

Bailando con Margot

Bailando con Margot · 2015

Bailando con Margot

On December 31, 1958, a detective investigates the theft of a painting from the home of a wealthy widow in Havana. The relationship between the two, amid investigations and danzones, reveals the history of the house and the family. The arrival of the bearded men in Havana changes the course of events.

Banderas, the Tyrant

Banderas, the Tyrant · 1993

Banderas, the Tyrant

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.

Filomeno Cuevas

The Elephant and The Bicycle

The Elephant and The Bicycle · 1994

The Elephant and The Bicycle

MovieDramaComedy

After two years in jail, El Isleño returns to the island of La Fe, ruled by the dictator Francisco Gavilán. He arrives with a cinematograph and exhibits "Robin Hood" to the people. The next day the bridge that communicates La Fe to the mainland has been destroyed, and the people plan to overthrow Gavilán.

Carlos

Fallen Gods

Fallen Gods · 2008

In the manner of a well run Greek tragedy, leaving aside one of its components, dragging in its passing narrative certainty by the viewer that violent death is the hallmark of so much misfortune purifier, Los Dioses Rotos crowns the very successful arrival of Ernesto Daranas to the feature domains and with it, the team that accompanied him, including the actors.

Román

The Survivors

The Survivors · 1979

MovieDramaComedy

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of political order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery."

Julito Orozco

Four Seasons in Havana

Four Seasons in Havana · 2016

Four Seasons in Havana

SeriesDramaCrime

As Havana slowly revolves through the year, wistful detective Mario Conde probes the sultry heart of the city to investigate dark and deadly crimes.

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