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This is the story of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas. Raised in the Oriente Province of Cuba in the 1940s, Arenas began his life-long love of the sea and water. Leaving home as a young adolescent, he moves to Havana where he finds himself swept up in the revolutionary spirit and joins a circle of writers and artists. His first novel, "Singing from the Well," is published in Cuba, but as Castro's oppressive regime gathers force, Arenas' homosexuality and political writing make him a target. After being falsely accused of molestation, Arenas is arrested and imprisoned at El Morro. Eventually released from prison after dehumanizing treatment, Arenas flees Cuba in the 1980 Mariel Harbor boatlift. After moving to New York with his friend Lazaro Gomez Carilles, Arenas' hopes for a new life are destroyed by AIDS, and he dies in 1993, at the age of 45.

Production
El Mar Pictures; Grandview Pictures;

Cast Names
Benjamín Benítez; Fidel Castro; Olatz López Garmendia; Giovanni Florido; Loló Navarro; Sebastián Silva; Carmen Beato; Cy Schnabel; Olmo Schnabel; Vito Maria Schnabel; Pedro Armendáriz Jr.; Diego Luna; Lia Chapman; Sean Penn; Jerzy Skolimowski; Aquiles Benites; Eva Piaskowska; Javier Bardem; Patricia Reyes Spíndola; Michael Wincott; Hector Babenco; Andrea Di Stefano; Marlene Díaz; Olga Borayo; Santiago Magill; Manolo García; Lola Schnabel; Ofelia Medina; Lois Barragán; Eduardo Antonio;

Box Office
USD 4,221,817

Release Date
2000-10-12 (Austin Film Festival)
2000-12-14 (Miami, Florida) (premiere)
2000-12-22 (limited)
2001-01-26

Genres
Biography; Drama;

MPAA Rating [?]
Rated R for strong sexual content, some language and brief violence.

Running Time
2 hr. 13 min.
2 hr. 3 min.

Director
Julian Schnabel

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