Cuban-born filmmaker Leon Ichaso's feature directing debut (with Orlando Jimenez-Leal) is an unsentimental portrait of life in exile – both physical and self imposed – shot through with surprising humor.
Cuban-born Roberto (Raymundo Hidalgo-Gato), has been in New York for ten years but refuses to learn English, which means the best job he can get is as the superintendent of a rundown apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He lives in a basement apartment with his wife, Aurelia (Zully Montero) and their 17-year-old daughter, Aurelita (a very young Elizabeth Pena), and spends his days resenting the tenants who expect him to look after the building an...
Released:
1979
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins