Ready to begin the shooting of The Horn of Abundance
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- 08 / 11 / 2007
The scriptwriter and filmmaker Juan Carlos Tabío, author of several successes of the Cuban comedy in the last decades and collaborator in his last works of Tomas Gutierrez Alea has everything ready to materialize a new script of the same genre entitled The Horn of Abundance.
This film's plot is halfway between Guantanamera and The World is Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, belongs to Arturo Arango, with whom the filmmaker wrote together the script whose real side was published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais in 2001.
The shooting will begin in mid November which is now undergoing a prior-shooting stage. The film cast will have the performances of Jorge Perugorria, Paula Ali, Enrique Molina, Raul Pomares, Alberto Pujols, Patricio Wood, Mirta Ibarra, Alexis Diaz de Villegas, Barbaro Marin, and Tahimi Alvariño, among others. The primary elements and inspirational source of the plot was born from a legend.
"The unstable economic situation in Cuba triggered over the last years a phenomenon of faith, hope, and ambition that thrust the roots deeper into the times of the Spanish colony. According to the report of El País, more than 25.000 Cubans assured to be heirs of a multimillionaire fortune that would be stored in the holds of a British ship waiting to be claimed.
It all began when in the XVIII century Bartolomé Manso de Contreras, rich Spanish descendant arrived by order of the Spanish crown to Cuba to fight pirates. He married on February 3, 1739 the no less economically favored Josefa de Loyola y Monteagudo, who belong to a family of landowners. The only boy of his four children died when he was a child and his three sisters, Maria Isabel del Santisimo Sacramento, Maria Dolores de la Resurreccion, and Maria Manuela de San Agustin became nuns. The unconfirmed legend tells they received a legacy in gold and jewels which they hid in Santa Clara Convent where they were confined, in Havana, but before the constant threat of thieves and corsairs, they decided in 1776 to send the treasure to a British bank in a sailing ship The Titan which arrived to port untroubled.
The Cuban press in the early century calculated that the fortune with the interests of several centuries had reached figures of several thousands of millions of dollars. It is said that the nuns died bestowing the fortune to their uncles, but these didnt claim it in their time. Although since the triumph of the revolution such topics are not a common interest of the official press, the legend has not lost strength in the Cuban people who in crowds has gone to civil registration offices and churches looking for evidence that links them to the Manso or the Loyola and their respective families.
On the lack of information compared about the truthfulness of the fortune and the possibility of collecting it, early this decade rumors in the island said that Fidel Castro Government had already collected part of the money and that they will give the descendants a house and a car, together with a credit card which would allow them to withdraw 350 dollars per month. The only true thing is that the treasure of the Manso de Contreras -if there was one - it has benefited any Cuban alive yet neither inside nor outside the country."
As explained the coauthor of Strawberry and Chocolate, The Horn of Abundance will win the Coral award for comedy, with his method of making cinema within cinema; a quick-witted comedy, full of misunderstandings and unforeseen issues. The project will be a co-production between ICAIC and the Gerardo Herreras company Tornasol, with support of Ibermedia.
Born in Havana in 1943, Juan Carlos Tabio began to work for ICAIC after the triumph of the Revolution as production assistant and later as director assistant. In 1963 he carried out his first documentary and from that moment on he collaborated in the scripts of several important films of the Cuban cinematography. Between 1963 and 1980 he made more than 30 documentary films and in 1983 he directed his first feature fiction film, Plaff.
Between 1989 and 1990 it worked as a professor of script and film cinematography direction at the International Cinema and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños and at the School Radio, Cinema and TV, both in Cuba. He has delivered script, direction and drama workshops in several countries (Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama) and his films have won national and international awards.
Source: CubaSi
This film's plot is halfway between Guantanamera and The World is Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, belongs to Arturo Arango, with whom the filmmaker wrote together the script whose real side was published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais in 2001.
The shooting will begin in mid November which is now undergoing a prior-shooting stage. The film cast will have the performances of Jorge Perugorria, Paula Ali, Enrique Molina, Raul Pomares, Alberto Pujols, Patricio Wood, Mirta Ibarra, Alexis Diaz de Villegas, Barbaro Marin, and Tahimi Alvariño, among others. The primary elements and inspirational source of the plot was born from a legend.
"The unstable economic situation in Cuba triggered over the last years a phenomenon of faith, hope, and ambition that thrust the roots deeper into the times of the Spanish colony. According to the report of El País, more than 25.000 Cubans assured to be heirs of a multimillionaire fortune that would be stored in the holds of a British ship waiting to be claimed.
It all began when in the XVIII century Bartolomé Manso de Contreras, rich Spanish descendant arrived by order of the Spanish crown to Cuba to fight pirates. He married on February 3, 1739 the no less economically favored Josefa de Loyola y Monteagudo, who belong to a family of landowners. The only boy of his four children died when he was a child and his three sisters, Maria Isabel del Santisimo Sacramento, Maria Dolores de la Resurreccion, and Maria Manuela de San Agustin became nuns. The unconfirmed legend tells they received a legacy in gold and jewels which they hid in Santa Clara Convent where they were confined, in Havana, but before the constant threat of thieves and corsairs, they decided in 1776 to send the treasure to a British bank in a sailing ship The Titan which arrived to port untroubled.
The Cuban press in the early century calculated that the fortune with the interests of several centuries had reached figures of several thousands of millions of dollars. It is said that the nuns died bestowing the fortune to their uncles, but these didnt claim it in their time. Although since the triumph of the revolution such topics are not a common interest of the official press, the legend has not lost strength in the Cuban people who in crowds has gone to civil registration offices and churches looking for evidence that links them to the Manso or the Loyola and their respective families.
On the lack of information compared about the truthfulness of the fortune and the possibility of collecting it, early this decade rumors in the island said that Fidel Castro Government had already collected part of the money and that they will give the descendants a house and a car, together with a credit card which would allow them to withdraw 350 dollars per month. The only true thing is that the treasure of the Manso de Contreras -if there was one - it has benefited any Cuban alive yet neither inside nor outside the country."
As explained the coauthor of Strawberry and Chocolate, The Horn of Abundance will win the Coral award for comedy, with his method of making cinema within cinema; a quick-witted comedy, full of misunderstandings and unforeseen issues. The project will be a co-production between ICAIC and the Gerardo Herreras company Tornasol, with support of Ibermedia.
Born in Havana in 1943, Juan Carlos Tabio began to work for ICAIC after the triumph of the Revolution as production assistant and later as director assistant. In 1963 he carried out his first documentary and from that moment on he collaborated in the scripts of several important films of the Cuban cinematography. Between 1963 and 1980 he made more than 30 documentary films and in 1983 he directed his first feature fiction film, Plaff.
Between 1989 and 1990 it worked as a professor of script and film cinematography direction at the International Cinema and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños and at the School Radio, Cinema and TV, both in Cuba. He has delivered script, direction and drama workshops in several countries (Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama) and his films have won national and international awards.
Source: CubaSi
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