Before Night Falls(Movie, 2000)

Name: Before Night Falls
Genre: Drama
Released: 2000
Duration: T02:14:00
Rating: 3.3

| 2h 14min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 117 votes)

Before Night Falls is a 2000 American biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel. The film is based on both the autobiography of the same name by Reinaldo Arenas—published in English in 1993—as well as Jana Boková's 1990 documentary Havana. The screenplay was co-written by Schnabel, Lázaro Gómez Carriles and Cunningham O'Keefe. The film stars Javier Bardem (his international film debut, and who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), Johnny Depp, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Santiago Magill and Michael Wincott. The film had its world premiere at the 2000 Venice International Film Festival. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Before Night Falls

Grand Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival) National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor

About Before Night Falls

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Mexico, United States of America (USA)

Shot in: New York City (NYC), Mexico

Plays in: New York, Cuba

Based on: "Before Night Falls" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: El Mar Pictures, Grandview Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)

Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 09/03/2000

Cast: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Michael Wincott, Diego Luna, Sean Penn, Héctor Babenco, Sebastián Silva, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Jerzy Skolimowski, Najwa Nimri, Benjamín Benítez, John Ortiz, Vincent Laresca, Diahnne Abbott, Patricia Reyes Spíndola

Director: Julian Schnabel

Producer: Jon Kilik

Screenwriter: Julian Schnabel

Film Editor: Michael Berenbaum

Director of Photography: Xavier Grobet

Composer: Carter Burwell

Costume designer: María Estela Fernández

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Antes do Anoitecer"

"Avant que tombe la nuit"

"Ennen yötä"

"Prin pesei i nyhta"

"Πριν Πέσει Η Νύχτα"

Keywords: cuban revolution, lgbt, biography, fidel castro, exile, suicide, aids, cuba, attempt to escape, artist, totalitarian regime, hot air balloon, author, new york city, oppression, male homosexuality

Revenue: 8,524,534 USD

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Before Night Falls(Movie, 2000)

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