'Hotel Nacional' will be presented at Iberseries & Platino Industria Co-Production and Financing Forum
\n\nCuba’s Jorge Perugorría, best known for his lead role in the iconic Oscar-nominated Cuban classic “Strawberry and Chocolate” (“Fresa y Chocolate”), has been cast in the upcoming film, “Hotel Nacional” which participates in the Iberseries & Platino Industria Co-Production and Financing Forum.
\n\nHe plays opposite Brazilian star Thiago Lacerda, (“Seven Women”) who plays a grieving man who goes to Havana in a bid to reconnect with the roots of his recently deceased Cuban wife.
\n\nHe meets Pilar, a Spanish doctor, who’s in the Cuban capital for a conference, hoping to escape the routine of her life in Madrid. At the bar of the emblematic Hotel Nacional, their paths cross – and they find an unlikely confidant in Rubén (Perugorría), a veteran Cuban bartender who introduces them to a forgotten cocktail.
\n\nAs Bruno and Pilar grow closer, they wander the streets of Havana and the corridors of the hotel they share, drinking, talking, and confronting the ghosts that haunt them—through alcohol, guilt, and each other.
\n\nIt will be helmed by writer, director and producer Diego Corsini (“Adiós Madrid”) in his eighth feature film outing as a director.
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/