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Juan Padrón
Born January 29, 1947 · Matanzas, Cuba
Died March 24, 2020 · aged 73
Juan Padrón Blanco (Matanzas, Cuba. 1947-2020) was a Cuban cartoonist, animator, illustrator, comic artist, screenwriter, film director and graduate in Art History. He is best known for being the creator of Elpidio Valdés, as well as for his animated feature films Vampires in Havana (1985) and More Vampires in Havana (2003). In 1974, he began his work as an animation director at the ICAIC, bringi…
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Elpidio Valdés · 1979Elpidio Valdés
★ 6.51979
MovieAnimation
Tells the birth of Elpidio, the death of his father and the beginnings of the War of Independence; as he knows María Silvia and how he becomes a scourge for the Spanish army, the counter-guerrilla and the American landowners. It develops almost totally in 1895.
Mafalda · 1993Mafalda
★ 7.21993
MovieAnimationComedy
Second feature film based on the famous characters of the Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Lavado, better known as Quino.
Vampires in Havana · 1985Vampires in Havana
★ 6.21985
MovieComedyAnimation
Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist, leaves Transylvania for Cuba, where he invents "Vampisol," a potion that allows vampires to survive in sunlight. When the professor announces his intention to donate the formula free-of-charge to vampires all over the world, the Vampire Mafia from Chicago and the European Group of Vampires from Düsseldorf try to muscle in and steal the formula. The action escalates crazily as an assortment of bad guys, police, vampires and other monsters, and our hero and his girlfriend are all caught up in the chase.
Alice in Wondertown · 1991Alice in Wondertown
★ 7.01991
MovieComedyDrama
A biting satire about life in contemporary Cuba. Alicia, a young drama instructor, is sent to the small town of Maravillas de Noveras, which is itself an exaggerated, but very ingenious reflection of the real Cuba. Her adventures there are almost as surreal as the ones experienced by Lewis Carroll's character, reflecting patterns of indoctrination, coercion, absolutism, and many other everyday problems in Cuban society.
Más se perdió en Cuba · 1995Más se perdió en Cuba
1995
MovieAnimationAdventure
Elpidio Valdés returns to the Cuban countryside to fight against the Spaniards. But they have a much more dangerous enemy: the Americans, who want to take over the island at any cost. Elpidio Valdés and his comrades-in-arms will try to prevent them from achieving their goal, with machetes in hand and bullets flying. It was conceived as a series for Spanish television and later shown as a feature film under the name Más se perdió en Cuba (More Was Lost in Cuba) in Spain and Elpidio Valdés contra el águila y el león (Elpidio Valdés Against the Eagle and the Lion) in Cuba.
More Vampires in Havana · 2003More Vampires in Havana
★ 7.32003
MovieAnimation
In 1923 the scientist Von Dracula invented Vampisol, a drink that allowed vampires to live in the sun. La Capa Nostra and the European Vampire Group confront each other in Havana to control the Vampisol, but Pepe, Von Dracula's nephew, sang the Vampisol formula for free on Radio Vampiro Internacional. Now Pepe must face the Nazi vampires, who use the most powerful Vampisol: El Vampiyaba.
Elpidio Valdés contra Dólar y Cañón · 1983Elpidio Valdés contra Dólar y Cañón
★ 7.01983
MovieAnimationAdventure
Elpidio Valdés, a soldier of the Cuban war of independence, is entrusted with the difficult and dangerous mission of bringing from Florida, in the United States, a shipment of weapons for the Cuban Liberation Army. It develops between 1896 and 1897.
¡Viva papi! · 1982¡Viva papi!
★ 10.01982
MovieAnimation
A child discovers the importance of work, however simple it may be, by understanding the usefulness of the nuts his father makes.
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