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2000

Nominated Documentary Feature

Buena Vista Social Club

1999

Rank

468

Score

77.37

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7/26/21

Music Documentary Film

Director Wim Wenders follows a renowned guitarist and his son as they travel to Cuba and assemble a group of the country's finest legendary musicians to record an album and perform in Amsterdam and the U.S. The film encapsulate notions about a place and a time that are deeply rooted in pre-revolutionary nostalgia staging a global encounter by recording at the outset of loosening diplomatic relations at the end of the 20th century, producing an idea of Cuba both familiar and foreign .
It was nominated for 1 Academy Award

DIRECTOR

Wim Wenders

German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer (born 1945).

CAST

Ry Cooder

American (born 1947)

Ibrahim Ferrer

Cuba (1927-2005)

Rubén González

Cuba (1919-2003)

Eliades Ochoa

Cuba (born 1946)

Compay Segundo

Cuba (1907-2003)

Omara Portuondo

Cuba (born 1930)

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