Before Night Falls (2000)

6.9	Listal rating
7.1	IMDB rating

Directed by

Julian Schnabel

Starring (View all)

Olatz Lopez Garmendia

Reinaldo's Mother

Giovanni Florido

Young Reinaldo

Loló Navarro

Reinaldo's Grandmother

Batan Silva

Reinaldo's Father

Carmen Beato

Teacher

Cy Schnabel

Smallest School Child

Olmo Schnabel

Smallest School Child

Vito Maria Schnabel

Teenage Reinaldo

Written by (View all)

Cunningham O'Keefe

(written by)

Lázaro Gómez Carriles

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Description: Before Night Falls is a touching screen adaptation of the autobiography of gay Cuban novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas that convincingly shows how freedom is the air that writers must breathe in order to fully express their creative souls. Through extreme rises and falls—impoverished youth to lively gay freedom in mid-1950's Cuba ... (more)

Release date : 26 January 2001
UPC: 794043525124

Drama (9), Cuba (7), Prison (7), 2000s (6), Biography (6), Poetry (5), Revolution (5), Homosexuality (4), Johnny Depp (4), Straw (4), Aids (4), 2000 (4), Gay Bashing (3), Independent Film (3), Oscar Nominee (3), Cross Dresser (3), Gay Interest (3), Typewriter (3), Writers (3), Gay Sex (2)

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