
Epicentro

Cuba is well known as a so-called time capsule. The very place where the New World was discovered has become both a romantic and a warning window into American and world history. Both the beauty and the decadence of the 50s have been preserved through economic embargos and isolation. The island allows us a glimpse – bleak or optimistic – into the planet’s future: in the case of global energy scarcity, cultural or financial crisis, large parts of the world could face a similar kind of existence. Through encounters with (extra) ordinary people, Hubert Sauper takes us on a new journey, entering the thoughts and dreams of Cuban society in an era of transition and change, placing his characters at the center of a far bigger, planetary narrative.
Data
- Category
- Documentary
- Financing
- Majoritäre Koproduktion
- Format
- DCP, 120 Min
- Admissions
- 3.643
- Funding Film Institute
- 150.000 €
- Share of Austrian production costs
- 15 %
- Share of total production costs
- 14 %
- Television investment
- 120.000 €
- Co-production
Groupe 2 France (FR, 37%)
- International funding
Ford Foundation, EURIMAGES
- Film location
- Cuba
- Shooting time
- September 2017 - March 2018
- Days of shooting
- 182
- Start of shooting
- 01.09.2017
- Completion
- Fall 2018
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria
Credits
- Production
- KGP Filmproduktion GmbH
- Producer Austria
- Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Paolo Calamita
- Director
- Hubert Sauper
- Script-concept
- Hubert Sauper
- DOP
- Hubert Sauper
- Editor
- Hubert Sauper, Monika Grassl
- Sound engineer
- Hubert Sauper
- Sound design
- Veronika Hlawatsch
- Production manager
- Paolo Calamita, Mathilde Sombstay
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), Cine+
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