Product Details

• Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Violeta Rodríguez, Kiti Manver, Broselianda Hernández, Isabel Santos
• Directors: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
• Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Cinemateca
• DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009ZE98A
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #72,456 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Things I Left in Havana" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Facets Multimedia Release Date: 08/30/2005

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7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, Refreshing Cuban Cinema, May 7, 2004

By	Xarnego (GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Things I Left In Havana (DVD)

By far the most interesting movie about the cuban immigrant experience out there on the North American DVD market, this movie is refreshing in its artistic clarity. I first saw this film in the 1997 Miami Film Festival and then bought it in europe only to learn about DVD region encoding and the imposibility of viewing it on a region 1 DVD player. By the way the zone 2 DVD is far superior (ie subtitles arent burned into the screen)To the region 1 DVD. That being said, it is a masterful tour de force of the immigrant experience and not to be overlooked.

5 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Leave this movie in Havana too!!, August 29, 2005

By	Rizzo (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Things I Left In Havana (DVD)

I don't think there is anything good I can say about this movie that about three sisters who move from Havana to live with a distant aunt in Spain who runs a fur shop. First, the story is about one sister who wants to act on the stage and I can't say why the other two are in the movie at all.

The lead character, Igor, Jorge Perugorria, creates false passports and has a quest in life to date women from Spain. He becomes romantically involved with Nena, the actress who does get to perform in theatre. And, he is romancing the friend of their aunt.

If this movie depicts some perspective on immigrants hopes and dreams, then I sure didn't see much of that. If the aunt had ideas of exploiting them, I can't see putting them to work in her shop exploiting. When she attempts to marry one off, that storyline remains weak. In other word, characters, other than the main two, don't have any development. Oftentimes you might just wonder "why are you here and how do you contribute to the film?"

The movie was neither poignant, nor humorous, nor moving! To add to that, the Spanish filmmakers tend to use derogatory language toward women. There are sexual situations not suitable for children, or me for that matter. The DVD has nothing more than the movie but trailers and scenes.

So, "Things I Left in Havana" is the movie that SHOULD have been left in Havana. ....MzRizz

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless piece of propaganda, November 25, 2007

By	Juan R. Pollo (Miami, FL, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I watched it all the way through because I kept waiting for it to get better. Nothing but the government's official spin and stereotypes. I threw it in the trash.