| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 40 min. 38 sec.) ; 611920014 bytes |
| Summary |
From acclaimed director, Wim Wenders, comes this extraordinary documentary about a group of Cuban musicians known as Los Superablos or, The Super Grandfathers. In 1996, Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names in the history of Cuban music to collaborate on what became the best selling and Grammy winning album, Buena Vista Social Club. Inspired by these colourful characters and their extraordinary music, Wenders' film follows the musicians from Havana to Amsterdam and finally to Carnegie Hall in New York. Featuring Ry Cooder, Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo and many other renowned Cuban musicians. (From Germany, in Spanish and English, English subtitles |
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Closed captioning in English |
| Event |
Broadcast 2011-01-01 at 19:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Boleros (Music)
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Dance music.
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Jazz.
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Popular music in motion pictures.
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Cuba.
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Streaming video
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Barzaga, Luis, cast
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Cooder, Joachim, cast
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Cooder, Ry, cast
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Fernandez, Julio Alberto, cast
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Ferrer, Ibrahim, cast
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Gonzalez, Carlos, cast
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Gonzalez, Juan De Marcos, cast
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Gonzalez, Ruben, cast
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Gonzalez, Ruben, cast
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Gonzalez, Ruben, cast
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Gonzalez, Ruben, cast
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Gonzalez, Ruben, cast
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Labrada, Salvador Repilado, cast
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Leyva, Pio, cast
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Licea, Manuel, cast
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Lopez, Orlando, cast
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Magana, Benito Suarez, cast
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Mirabal, Manuel, cast
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Ochoa, Eliades, cast
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Portuondo, Omara, cast
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Sanchez, Julienne Oviedo, cast
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Segundo, Compay, cast
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Valdes, Alberto, cast
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Valdes, Amadito, cast
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Torres, Barbarito, cast
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Villa, Lazaro, cast
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Wenders, Wim, director
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