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Vladimir Cruz | |
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 Vladimir Cruz | |
| Born | Vladimir Cruz Marrero 26 July 1965 |
| Education | Instituto Superior de Arte |
| Occupation(s) | Actor Screenwriter Playwright Film director Theatre director |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse | Raquel Ramos |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Vladimir Cruz Marrero (born 26 July 1965) is a Cuban actor, screenwriter, playwright, film and theatre director. [1] He is perhaps best known for his role in the film Strawberry and Chocolate (1994).
Cruz made his acting debut on the stage as an amateur actor in 1981. He then began to study at the Instituto Superior de Arte in 1983 and graduated in 1988 with a licentiate degree in performing arts.
He became well-known for his supporting role in the film Strawberry and Chocolate (1994), which received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and many awards.
He also wrote plays and screenplays as well as directed plays and films, notably Afinidades (2010).
He has an extensive career in film, theater and television. He has recently appeared in the film Los buenos demonios (2018) and the television series Narcos: Mexico (2018), the former of which earned him the Silver Biznaga for Best Supporting Actor at the Málaga Spanish Film Festival.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. Gutiérrez Alea wrote and directed more than twenty features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic, and political conditions of the country.
Francisco Alejandro Gattorno Sánchez, better known in the show business world plainly as Francisco Gattorno, is a Cuban-Mexican actor.
The Waiting List is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Juan Carlos Tabío. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. It is a co-production among companies from Spain, Cuba, France, and Mexico; including Tornasol Films, ICAIC, DMVB, Tabasco Films, Producciones Amaranta and Road Movies Fillm Produktionen.
Edesio Alejandro Rodríguez Salva is a Cuban composer of electronic music. He has composed music for theatre plays, TV, and movies; as well as several concert compositions. Many of them experimental, using synthesizers and mixing together actors, dancers, and musicians in unusual line-ups.
Arturo Maly was a Silver Condor Award–winning Argentine actor.
José María Vitier is a Cuban music composer and pianist. He has made music for movies and television, as well as compositions for piano, symphonic orchestra, chamber orchestra, among other formats. His style often combines the classical and Cuban folk music styles. Some of his most remarkable works are his compositions for the Cuban film Fresa y Chocolate, and his Cuban mass.
Juan Carlos Tabío was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate (1994), which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He collaborated with director and close friend Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and actors Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz and Mirta Ibarra in several films.
Jorge Perugorría Rodríguez is a Cuban actor, film director and painter. He is well known for his part as Diego in Strawberry and Chocolate (original title in Spanish Fresa y chocolate. He recently acted in Steven Soderbergh's Che, with Benicio del Toro and in the original Netflix series Four Seasons in Havana. He lives in Santa Fe, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Havana, with his wife Elsa Maria Fuentes de La Paz and their four children.
Carlos Diaz is a Cuban theatre director. Diaz studied dramaturgy and theatre at Havana's Superior Institute of Art (ISA). He started his career as a theatre and art critic and later took on the role of director. He is the director of theatre company Teatro El Publico.
Strawberry and Chocolate is a 1993 internationally co-produced film, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, based on the short story "The Wolf, The Forest and the New Man". Senel Paz had witten the short story in 1990, and also wrote the screenplay for the film.
Afinidades is the debut feature film co-directed by Cuban director-actors Jorge Perugorría and Vladimir Cruz. They also both play the main roles in the film, a psychological drama. Cruz was also the screenwriter of the film, which is an adaptation of the Reynaldo Montero novel Música de cámara.
Alfonso Arau Incháustegui is a Mexican filmmaker and actor. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002) and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.
Adriana Paz is a Mexican actress and dancer. She began her artistic career in Spain, shooting commercials and acting in a play. She was recognized for her role as Toña in the Mexican film Rudo y Cursi (2009) with a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress. She garnered critical praise starring as Miranda in Las Horas Muertas (2013), for which she was awarded Best Actress at the Morelia International Film Festival. She subsequently starred in the TV series Sucedió en Un Día (2010), Capadocia (2010), El Encanto del Aguila (2011), Dios, Inc. (2016), and Vis a vis (2018-2019).
Volavérunt is a 1999 French-Spanish historical drama film directed by Bigas Luna. Based on a novel with the same title by Antonio Larreta, the film is set in Spain at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Horn of Plenty is a 2008 Cuban / Spanish comedy film directed by Juan Carlos Tabío.
Raúl Peña is a Spanish stage and screen actor and singer known for appearing as Carmelo Leal in the long-running telenovela El secreto de Puente Viejo.
Laura de la Uz is a Cuban film, television and theatre actress. She appeared in the theatre drama "Un Rayo de Esperanza" in 2020 Cubacultura. She was nominated for Platino Award for Best Actress twice.
Virgin Rose is a 2006 Spanish–Cuban romance and adventure film directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón which stars Jorge Perugorría, Álex González, Broselianda Hernández and Ana de Armas.
Things I Left in Havana is a 1997 Spanish film directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and co-written by Senel Paz. It stars Violeta Rodríguez, Jorge Perugorría and Kiti Mánver.
The Wooden Box is a 2006 Spanish-Portuguese black comedy film directed and written by Juan Carlos Falcón in his directorial feature debut which stars Ángela Molina, Elvira Mínguez, Antonia San Juan, Vladimir Cruz, and María Galiana.
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