buena vista social club G
Release date 1998
Country USA
Running time 101 minutes
OFLC Rating G
Director Wim Wenders
Key Cast Ry Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzales
From Wim Wenders, acclaimed director of the classic ‘Wings of Desire’ and ‘Paris, Texas’ comes this extraordinary documentary about a group of Cuban musicians known as ‘los superablos’ (The Super-grandfathers). In 1996 Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names in the history of Cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and Grammy winning album ‘Buena Vista Social Club’. Inspired by these colourful characters and their extraordinary music, Wenders’ touching and energetic film follows the musicians from Havana to Amsterdam and finally to Carnegie Hall in New York.