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El Super / Max Mambru Films ; screenplay and produced by Manuel Arce and Leon Ichaso ; directed by Leon Ichaso and Orlando Jimenez-Leal.
LIBRA VHS PQ7390.A264 S82 1989
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- American independents
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Acosta, Iván, 1943---Film adaptations.
- Acosta, Iván.
- Acosta, IvaÌn, 1943-.
- Immigrants--United States--Drama.
- Immigrants.
- Cuban Americans.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Cuba--Emigration and immigration--Drama.
- Cuba.
- Cuban Americans--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
- Motion pictures, Cuban.
- New York (State)--New York.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (80 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New Yorker Video, [1989]
- Language Note:
- Spanish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- A humorous and touching view of Cuban exiles living in a basement apartment during a snowy winter in New York. El Super is the story of Roberto, a superintendent, who dreams of his warm and friendly homeland, and stubbornly refuses to assimilate into the new culture.
- Participant:
- Raymundo Hidalgo-Gato, Zully Montero, Reynaldo Medina, Elizabeth Peña.
- Credits:
- Director of photography Orlando Jimenez-Leal ; editor, Gloria Pineyro ; music, Enrique Ubieta.
- Notes:
- Based on the play El Super by Ivan Acosta.
- Videocassette release of the 1979 MMF production.
- OCLC:
- 21954056
- Publisher Number:
- NYV 28890 New Yorker Video
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