Buena Vista Social Club

Resource Information

The work Buena Vista Social Club represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Buena Vista Social Club

Statement of responsibility

Road Movies Filmproduktion presents ; a Road Movies production in association with Kintop Pictures, ARTE and ICAIC ; a film by Wim Wenders ; produced by Ry Cooder, Ulrich Felsberg and Deepak Nayar ; directed by Wim Wenders

Contributor

• Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Association relative à la télévision européenne
• Association relative à la télévision européenne
• Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica
• Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica
• Kintop Pictures (Firm)
• Kintop Pictures (Firm)
• Road Movies Filmproduktion
• Road Movies Filmproduktion
• Cooder, Ry
• Cooder, Ry
• Felsberg, Ulrich
• Felsberg, Ulrich
• Ferrer, Ibrahim, 1927-2005
• Ferrer, Ibrahim, 1927-2005
• González, Rubén, 1919-2003
• González, Rubén, 1919-2003
• Leyva, Pío
• Leyva, Pío
• Licea, Manuel, 1927-2000
• Licea, Manuel, 1927-2000
• López, Orlando, 1933-2009
• López, Orlando, 1933-2009
• Mirabal Vázquez, Manuel, 1933-
• Mirabal Vázquez, Manuel, 1933-
• Nayar, Deepak
• Nayar, Deepak
• Ochoa, Eliades
• Ochoa, Eliades
• Portuondo, Omara
• Portuondo, Omara
• Segundo, Compay
• Segundo, Compay
• Torres, Barbarito
• Torres, Barbarito
• Valdés, Amadito
• Valdés, Amadito
• Wenders, Wim
• Wenders, Wim

Subject

• Biographies
• Biographies
• Dance music -- Cuba
• Dance music -- Cuba
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Interviews
• Interviews
• Latin jazz -- Cuba
• Latin jazz -- Cuba
• Music videos
• Music videos
• Musicians -- Cuba | Havana -- Biography
• Musicians -- Cuba | Havana -- Biography
• Musicians -- Cuba | Havana -- Interviews
• Musicians -- Cuba | Havana -- Interviews
• Popular music -- Cuba -- 1991-2000
• Popular music -- Cuba -- 1991-2000
• Sones -- Cuba
• Sones -- Cuba
• Video recordings
• Video recordings
• Videorecording

Genre

• Biographies
• Biography
• Documentary films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Interviews
• Music videos
• Video recordings

Language

• spa
• eng
• eng
• spa

Summary

In 1996, Ry Cooder went to Cuba, rediscovering talents of Cuba's foremost folk musicians, and then making a recording selling millions and earning a Grammy Award. Cooder now returns to Cuba with film maker Wim Wenders to reveal the stories, personalities, and music of the performers who collaborated on that recording. Includes live performances in Amsterdam and at Carnegie Hall

Cataloging source

CIA

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography and steadicam, Jörg Widmer ; editor, Brian Johnson

Language note

In Spanish and English with English subtitles

PerformerNote

Ry Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo, Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Amadito Valdés, Manuel Mirabal Vazquez, Barbaro Alberto Torres Delgado, Pío Leyva, Manuel Licea

Runtime

105

Technique

live action