[Cincinatus' Wife]

The filmmaker earns 400 pesos a month, equal to $15, from the state cinema agency and got a bonus in dollars during filming with Spanish producing company Wanda that funded the production and holds the international rights.

I wonder what cut of the profits go to Fidel Castro.

People walk on a street lined with crumbling buildings in downtown Havana, July 28, 2003. A movie called 'Suite Habana,' made by Cuban film-maker Fernando Perez, documents a day in the life of Cubans who struggle with the harsher side of life in revolutionary Cuba. (Rafael Perez/Reuters)

Cuban street artists on stilts walk into a building as a woman stands nearby in downtown Havana, July 9, 2003. A movie called 'Suite Habana', made by Cuban film-maker Fernando Perez, documents a day in the life of Cubans who struggle with the harsher side of life in revolutionary Cuba. The movie is said to speak of the daily feat of existence, of how one can live in poverty without losing dignity or renouncing one's dreams. REUTERS/Claudia Daut/FOR STORY CUBA-FILM

[Miss Marple]

Paul Harvey read this story yesterday on his noon program.

I personally wish they would show this film in Hollywood.

[Malesherbes]

One of the great crimes of American liberalism is its adoration of Fidel Castro ("Dr. Castro" per the New York Times.) The reign of this monster has been justified by Cuba's "high literacy and free health care." This means literate to read only Marxist propaganda and health care that no American liberal would willing choose for himself.

[sgtbono2002]

The Cubans rose up in a revolution and placed Castro in charge. Where has that courage for revolution gone? At one time I would have said we should help, that was before we lifted the yoke of Saddam Hussein off the shoulders of Iraq and get kicked in the teeth for it every day. If these people dont like Castro, let them remove Castro. Why should the US go there get soldiers killed and then have the citizens turn on us?

[verity]

a doctor doubles as a clown after work

What's the big deal? The US has clowns doubling as Democrat Presidential candidates!

[Semper Paratus]

"Socialismo es Muerte"

[DTA]

>>>>>>The official view is that the film accurately portrays the stoicism with which "habaneros" put up with social hardships that the government blames on four decades of "economic blockade" by its archenemy the United States<<<<

Surprisingly, there is a truth in this. Uncle Sam is directly propping up Castro with the ecconomic blockade. If there were no sanctions, if Juan working in Goodwrench was making $2 per hour and Jose working for Castro $15 a month, Castro's regime would topple like a deck of cards.

Cubans are prisoners of both Castro and The United States.

[gedeon3]

I will have a 3 day party when the sob castro makes his trip to hell.

[OldCorps]

Just another example of the "Worker's Paradise" known as Cuba. Communism is death for human dignity and freedom.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma praised it as "one of the most important films in the history of Cuban cinema."

Communists love misery wherever they see it.

After all, if they didn't have misery to blame on someone else, what would they have?

[lowbridge]

Some Cubans were surprised President Fidel Castro's government allowed exhibition of a film that focuses on the daily grind of life under tropical socialism.

That's only for today. Tomorrow, you're all (the filmmakers and the audiences who came to see this film) under arrest.

[Cultural Jihad]

BTTT

[Xenalyte]

"Eighty percent of Havana lives like this. Many bathe with a bucket, with no running water. I did it for eight years," said Perez, son of a postman who dreamed of being an astrologer.

Anyone can be an astrologer. All you need to do is memorize the 12 zodiac signs and spout gibberish about long journeys and career changes.

[PJ-Comix]

Huh? How can this be? The Cuba I saw in Die Another Day showed an island full of HAPPY people dancing in the streets and food stalls full of lots and lots of fruit hanging everywhere for the taking. Also the Cuban hospital in the movie was so technologically advanced that people came from all over the world for treatments there. The Cuba I saw in that movie showed Cubans enjoying un GRAN FIESTA!!!

[Skooz]

The Incomparable Raul Capablanca

[Aquinasfan]

The documentary returns again and again to a statue of John Lennon sitting on a Havana park bench honoring the Beatle who wrote "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."

Communism is one weird "religion."