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Actor-director
Andy Garcia hopes for `revolution of democracy' in Cuba
8 November 2006
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) _ Actor-director Andy Garcia said
late Wednesday that he hoped for a revolution of democracy in Cuba as
his movie about the communist-run island opened a film festival in the
Dominican Republic.
Garcia, who starred in his own directing debut, ``The Lost City,'' was
joined by President Leonel Fernandez and Dominican slugger Sammy Sosa at
the Dominican Global Film Festival, which is run by the president's
think tank, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development.
Asked what he hoped would happen in his native Cuba over the next year,
Garcia said, ``I could only have the hope we have all had for 47 years:
that the promise of a revolution of democracy will come true. That's
what the revolution was about until it was betrayed.''
Written by Cuban novelist and fierce Fidel Castro critic Guillermo
Cabrera Infante, ``The Lost City'' is set largely at a lavish, colourful
Havana nightclub just before and soon after Castro came to power.
Though the film _ which was shot in the Dominican Republic _ is not an
adaptation of Cabrera's novel ``Three Trapped Tigers,'' an account of
the animated nightlife in pre-Castro Cuba, Garcia was inspired by the
spirit of the book and the story developed through his discussions with
the writer. Cabrera died last year at age 75.
Garcia plays Havana club owner Fico Fellove, whose passion for music is
balanced by his complete apathy over his country's tumultuous politics
in the late 1950s.
The film opened in the United States in late April. Garcia was
accompanied by his daughter, Daniella, at the film festival, which runs
through Nov. 12.
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