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| Havanna Jahr: 1990 Klassifikation: Regisseure - Pollack, Sydney Regisseur: - Sydney Pollack Schauspieler/Schauspielerinnen: - Robert Redford - Lena Olin Cuba Libre. In a highball glass, pour 1.5 - 2 oz rum over ice cubes, add the juice of 1/2 lime and fill up with coke. That's the recipe for the drink political correctness has renamed "Rum and Coke," but which most of us also still know by its original name, Cuba Libre. And the cocktail invented just over 100 years ago to celebrate Cuba's freedom from Spanien perfectly epitomizes the state of the island republic's society towards the late 1950s' end of the Batista regime: A sweet, tangy, intoxicating Caribbean foundation, mixed with the classical American exports; from Coke, cars and cigarettes to expatriates and their money ... except, alas, for the greatest thing the U.S. might have brought to Cuba, assistance in establishing democracy. Instead, during Batista's 30-year dictatorship, Cuba - and particularly Havana - became the Latin Las Vegas, a place where the action was on, the stakes were high, flesh was cheap, gambling was legal (and largely controlled by American mobster Meyer Lansky) and the party never ended. Until, beset by the revolutionary movement led by a certain Fidel Castro, Batista fled the country in the early morning hours of January 1, 1959. And suddenly the party was over. The last days of Batista's regime are the backdrop for 1990's "Havana," which sees high-stakes poker ace Jack Weil (Robert Redford) in Cuba for the game of his life. He has played "every elks' club and moose hole in America" and remembers every hand of every game, he tells Lansky's right-hand man Joe Volpi (Alan Arkin). Now he wants a shot at the big one - playing with guys who don't even think how much they're playing for. And he knows that the revolutionary fever in the air has the same effect on gamblers as a potent aphrodisiac on those in pursuit of Havana's other main commodity; so in Jack's eyes, now's the time or never. Yet, although liberally indulging in all of Havana's pleasures, he couldn't care less about Cuban politics. All he thinks he needs to know is who's in charge, and how to stay out of trouble. But then he meets Roberta Duran (Lena Olin at the top of her game), the wife of a wealthy physician aligned with Castro. (Raul Julia who, despite a stellar performance, chose to remain uncredited, reportedly because he didn't receive first billing alongside Redford - a great pity, and a disservice to himself.) Now Jack falls in love, badly enough to go against his life's entire philosophy to try and save Roberta from Batista's henchmen after her husband has been arrested and supposedly killed, and she questioned and tortured by the secret police. And now Jack really does get to play the game of his life - except that now it's no longer about cards at all; and when Volpi at last does put together the big game he has lobbied for, Jack is no longer Ein MUSS für alle Redford Fans! Wer Casablanca mochte, sollte diesen Film lieben. Der Film wurde verissen, weil Redford sich nicht "jungschminken" lassen wollte und somit nicht mehr dem ewigen Schönheitsideal entsprach. Der Film er zählt eine wunderbare Geschichte im Rahmen der kubanischen Revolution um eine große unerfüllbare Liebe mit brillanten Schauspielern (neben Redford glänzen Lena Olin, Raul Julia und Alan Arkin). Das wirklich Reizvolle an diesem Film ist, das die beiden Hauptdarsteller (Redford/Olin) völlig unterschiedliche Charaktere darstellen, die wirklich nur die Liebe verbindet. Lassen Sie sich überrachen. Etliche magische Sätze ganz wie in Casablanca lohnen allein das Anschauen. Kauf Havanna bei Amazon.deoder Alphamusic Kauf Poster bei Close-up-posters.de,Posternow.de, Allposters.com oder Starkalender.de Kaufen und verkaufen bei ebay.de Ticketbuchung bei Getgo oder Ticketcenter.de Klingeltöne bei Klingelton.com, Jamba oder sms4you.net |  |
