Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films

It Happened in Havana
”Playing Swede“ is slang in Cuba for pretending not to know or playing the innocent one. And
the German crook Björn is quite good at it. He goes incognito in the Cuban metropole as a
Swedish professor of literature in order to dart the European police. Of all places, he finds an
adoptive family in a retired policeman’s household. And on top of that, he falls in love with
the daughter. But this doesn’t prevent him from going about his criminal ways. The local street
gangsters suffer most of all, as Björn takes away their ”work“. When the police fail to catch
him, Havana’s underground world takes it upon itself to hunt down the competition.
Peter Lohmyer, Ketty de la Iglesia (photo © ICAIC/Kinowelt)
Genre Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2000/01 Director Daniel Díaz Torres
Screenplay Eduardo del Llano Director of Photography
Raul Perez Ureta Editor Guillermo S. Maldonado
Music by Edesio Alejandro, Gerardo Garcia Production
Design Evelio Delgado Producers Camilo Vives, Rainer
Kölmel, Angel Amigo Production Company ICAIC,
Havana, in co-production with Kinowelt Filmproduktion,
Munich, in association with IGELDO KOMUNIKAZIOA, San
Sebastian, IMPALA, Madrid, with participation of TVE, Madrid,
Canal+, Paris Principal Cast Peter Lohmeyer, Enrique
Molina, Coralia Veloz, Ketty de la Iglesia, Mijail Mulkay, Rogelio
Blain Studio Shooting ICAIC, Havana Length 105 min,
2873 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.66 Original Version
Spanish Subtitled Versions English, German Sound
Technology Dolby Digital International Festival
Screenings Berlin 2001, Havana Film Festival New York &
Chicago 2001 International Awards Audience Award &
UPEC Cultural Circle Award, Havana 2000 German
Distributor Arthaus Filmverleih GmbH, Munich
Daniel Díaz Torres was born in 1948 in
Havana, Cuba and is one of the most eminent
directors in Cuba today. He studied Political
Science at the University of Havana and has
worked since 1968 at the Cuban film institute
ICAIC as a directing assistant, critic and instructor.
He is also chief editor of the ICAIC’s cinematic
weekly publication. He presented his first
film Jíbaro in 1985, but it was his third film
Alicia en el pueblo de maravillas (1991)
that brought him international recognition and
the DAAD Artist’s Program scholarship in
Berlin. Despite the political turbulence in
his homeland, he is the only director in Cuba
today who has been able to continue to direct
his own films without having to accept commercial
or ideological concessions. A selection of
his films include: Libertad para Luis
Corvalán (1975), Otra mujer (1986) and
Little Tropikana (1997) among others.
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