
“A human being can be destroyed but not defeated”
The plot, set in Havana in the last period of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, follows a young girl whose aspirations to obtain a scholarship in America, against the odds, are paralleled with her reading of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".
Director
Fernando Pérez
Writers
Maydo Royero
Release Date
December 1, 1990
Runtime
1h 25m
Status
Released
Original Language
es
Vote Count
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