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Before Night Falls (2000)
Directed by Julian Schnabel
Drama · 2h 14m
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Cast
Javier Bardem
Reinaldo Arenas
Olivier Martinez
Lazaro Gomez Carilles
Johnny Depp
Bon Bon / Lieutenant Victor
Andrea Di Stefano
Pepe Malas
Santiago Magill
Tomas Diego
John Ortiz
Juan Abreu
Héctor Babenco
Virgilio Pinera
Francisco Gattorno
Jorge Camacho
Marisol Padilla Sánchez
Margarita Camacho
Michael Wincott
Herberto Zorilla Ochoa
Sean Penn
Cuco Sanchez
Najwa Nimri
Fina Zorilla Ochoa
Crew
- Director
- Julian Schnabel
- Screenplay
- Jana Boková
- Writer
- Cunningham O'Keefe, Lázaro Gómez Carriles, Julian Schnabel
- Novel
- Reinaldo Arenas
- Director of Photography
- Xavier Grobet, Guillermo Rosas
- Original Music Composer
- Carter Burwell
- Editor
- Michael Berenbaum
- Producer
- Jon Kilik
Details
- Release date
- 2000-09-03
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish, Russian, French
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- El Mar Pictures, Grandview Pictures
- Box office
- $8,524,534