Havana 57
- IMDb link: 2143788
- IMDb rating: 5.4 (109 votes)
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Jim Purdy
- Cast: Juan Riedinger, Elisabetta Fantone, Paulino Nunes, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll and others
- Release date: 6 Mar 2013
- Release year: 2012
- Runtime: 99 minutes
- Country: Canada
Plot:
Havana 1957, "Sin Capital of the World" - Mafia run nightclubs, sex, drugs, booze and gambling. President Batista heads a dictatorship benefiting wealthy Yankee corporations; student radicals rally with the poor, and revolutionaries. Ruben Velez, a young cop believes in law and order where his fellow officers control the population with torture, intimidation, and murder. His partner, a dirty cop cold-bloodily murders a student and Velez's outrage is met with indifference and a warning: play the game or suffer the consequences. Juliana a beautiful Tropicana dancer identifies the corpse of a dancer whose murder Velez investigates. Juliana, a mobster's lover, feeds Velez inside information on the mob and its business---is she carrying out some elaborate game? Playing off the cop against the mob? Or is she falling in love with Velez.