Release Date

26 May, 2017

Runtime

01:50: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

In 1996, Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, British producer Nick Gold, and American guitarist Ry Cooder convened in Havana to produce a Cuban-Malian collaboration. When the Malians couldn’t get visas, the team turned their attention to reviving a forgotten generation of legendary son cubano musicians and formed an on-the-fly ensemble: the Buena Vista Social Club. Two decades since that fateful first session, we catch up to these master musicians, as they reflect on the magical unfolding of their lives—from humble origins to the evolution and surprising revival of their careers, all against the backdrop of Cuba’s dramatic history. Brimming with unseen concert, rehearsal, and archival footage, this film is an emotional, shimmering celebration of music’s power to transcend age, ideologies, and class, and to connect us to each other through our souls.

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Actors

Ibrahim Ferrer

Omara Portuondo

Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal

Eliades Ochoa

Barbarito Torres

Guajirito Mirabal

Jesús 'Aguaje' Ramos

Crew

Lucy Walker

Andrew Baker

Enrique Chediak

Lucas Gath

Pablo Proenza

Tyler Temple Higgins

Robbie Adams

Christine Cowin

Zak Kilberg

Julian Cautherley

Victor Moyers

Asher Goldstein

Wim Wenders

Lucy Walker