Summary "It was an old man fishing alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream, and he had now gone out eighty-four days in a row without catching a fish - " The Cuban fishing nest Cojima once served Ernest Hemingway as the scene of his fable about the old man and the fish of his life. The old man still exists today, Capitan Gregorio Fuentes, now 103 years old and stone old. He still remembers the "wild times with Senior Hemingway, as if it had been yesterday". Much on the Caribbean island reminds of the great narrator: his room in the old town hotel "Ambos Mundos" on Havana's Calle Obispo, today a museum; the "Bodeguita Del Medio", where Hemingway is still supposed to hold the "Daiquiri" record today (a hot brew of rum, lime juice, sugar and ice), his finca "San Francisco de Paula" south of Havana and and and and - Meanwhile the Cuban tourism authorities have opened the island in front of the Gulf of Mexico for travellers and praise their picturesque national parks, but above all the legendary capital like warm rolls: "Havana - let the word melt like the aroma of a good cigar on your tongue, treat yourself to the pleasure of the dream - " The film is a ramble through these "dreams", through the picturesque idyll of the "Hemingway'schen" fishing villages and ends with four older gentlemen earning their "pocket money" on the street: Musicians who have never heard the name Wim Wenders before and can only wonder about the hype about Cuban rhythms in the West: "We've had this all day and we've had it since we can think.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Richard Gere The Dalai Lama
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/414839
Language : German
Production companies : Martin Thoma Film- und Fernsehproduktion Haberci Productions
Summary "It was an old man fishing alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream, and he had now gone out eighty-four days in a row without catching a fish - " The Cuban fishing nest Cojima once served Ernest Hemingway as the scene of his fable about the old man and the fish of his life. The old man still exists today, Capitan Gregorio Fuentes, now 103 years old and stone old. He still remembers the "wild times with Senior Hemingway, as if it had been yesterday". Much on the Caribbean island reminds of the great narrator: his room in the old town hotel "Ambos Mundos" on Havana's Calle Obispo, today a museum; the "Bodeguita Del Medio", where Hemingway is still supposed to hold the "Daiquiri" record today (a hot brew of rum, lime juice, sugar and ice), his finca "San Francisco de Paula" south of Havana and and and and - Meanwhile the Cuban tourism authorities have opened the island in front of the Gulf of Mexico for travellers and praise their picturesque national parks, but above all the legendary capital like warm rolls: "Havana - let the word melt like the aroma of a good cigar on your tongue, treat yourself to the pleasure of the dream - " The film is a ramble through these "dreams", through the picturesque idyll of the "Hemingway'schen" fishing villages and ends with four older gentlemen earning their "pocket money" on the street: Musicians who have never heard the name Wim Wenders before and can only wonder about the hype about Cuban rhythms in the West: "We've had this all day and we've had it since we can think.
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/414839
Language : German
Production companies : Martin Thoma Film- und Fernsehproduktion Haberci Productions
