Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem stars as the Cuban poet and novelist, Reynaldo Arenas, who was persecuted for his creative beliefs and his homosexuality before finally being allowed to leave Cuba in 1980.
Before Night Falls
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Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem (“No Country for Old Men,” “The Sea Inside”) stars and was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for his performance as the Cuban poet and novelist, Reynaldo Arenas, who was singled out by his teachers and encouraged to further his skills as a writer no easy task, considering the Castro regime's censorship of any work considered to be subversive or anti-authoritarian. Still, the author manages to smuggle his work out of the country through friends, who arrange for one of his novels to be published in France. Not only persecuted for his creative beliefs, the openly gay Arenas is jailed on a bogus sex charge; he escapes internment only to be captured and persecuted later for his contraband dispatches. In 1980, Arenas is finally allowed to leave Cuba for the United States, where he achieves freedom of expression. Also starring Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Johnny Depp (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise).
Cast and crew
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Julian Schnabel
Director, Writer -
Javier Bardem
Reinaldo Arenas -
Johnny Depp
Bon Bon / Lieutenant Victor -
Olatz López Garmendia
Reinaldo's Mother -
Giovani Florido
Young Reinaldo -
Loló Navarro
Reinaldo's Grandmother -
Batan Silva
Reinaldo's Father -
Carmen Beato
Teacher -
Cy Schnabel
Smallest School Child -
Olmo Schnabel
Smallest School Child -
Vito Schnabel
Teenage Reinaldo -
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Reinaldo's Grandfather -
Diego Luna
Carlos -
Lia Chapman
Lolin -
Sean Penn
Cuco Sanchez -
Jerzy Skolimowski
Professor -
Aquiles Benites
Translator -
Ewa Piaskowska
Pretty Blonde Student -
Patricia Reyes Spíndola
María Teresa Freye de Andrade -
Michael Wincott
Heberto Zorilla Ochoa -
Hector Babenco
Virgilio Piñera -
Andrea Di Stefano
Pepe Malas -
Marlene Díaz
Woman in car #1 -
Olga Borayo
Woman in car #2 -
Santiago Magill
Tomas Diego -
Manolo García
Faustino -
Cunningham O'Keefe
Writer -
Lázaro Gómez Carriles
Writer
Additional information
Directors
Julian SchnabelDirectors
Studio
Warner Bros.Studio
Subtitles
English (CC)Subtitles
Genres
DramaGenres
Writers
Cunningham O'KeefeLázaro Gómez Carriles
Julian Schnabel
Writers
Lázaro Gómez Carriles
Julian Schnabel
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