The Sixth European Film Festival, which will take place in Havana from April 12 to 23, will have a representation of productions from the Old Continent, most of which premiere on the island.
According to Antonio Mazón Robau, programmer of the Cuban Cinematheque, the films will be screened in rooms 23 and 12, Charles Chaplin and La Rampa, where works such as Quo Vadis, Aida, Close, System Breaker, Corpus Christi, and the animated documentary Flee, with which the exhibition will open.
The program is complemented by Cinema on demand: Premieres in Cinematheque, cycle dedicated to films, classic and contemporary, unpublished in that institution. Mazón Robau stressed that this billboard extends to Sala Charlot.
He highlighted the premiere of two films never before shown in Cuba by the popular actor Jean-Paul Belmondo: manhunt and Itinerary of a spoiled childwith the latter he deserved the César award, which he would later reject.
Other films that will be projected are the fallen idoldirected by and starring British actor Richard Harris, with Romy Schneider, a never-before-shown Vittorio de Sica: The sunflowerswith Marcello Mastroianni and Sofia Loren, the thriller Misery; Casino, by Martin Scorsese and Cold Mountainby Anthony Minghella, among others.
