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The Mambo Kings(Movie, 1992)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Genres: Drama, Music
The Mambo KingsRating: 3.2/5 (with 4646 votes)
The Mambo Kings is a 1992 musical drama film based on the 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos. The film was directed and produced by Arne Glimcher, and stars Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty and Maruschka Detmers. Set in the early 1950s, the story follows Cesar (Assante) and Nestor Castillo (Banderas), brothers and aspiring musicians who find success and stardom after fleeing from Havana, Cuba to New York City to escape danger. The film marks Glimcher's directing debut, and features Banderas in his first English-language role. Glimcher acquired the film rights one year before the novel was published and hired Cynthia Cidre to write the script. The film was rejected by several studios, and after an unsuccessful pre-production at Universal Pictures, the project moved to Warner Bros. The producti... ()
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About The Mambo Kings

The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.

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Additional Information

Production countries: France, United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT)
Translated into 14 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/04/1992 (World premiere: 02/28/1992)
Keywords: mambo
Revenue: 6,742,168 USD

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