A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Featuring:
Vladimir Cruz, Tahimi Alvariño, Jorge Perugorría
Written by:
Arturo Arango
Senel Paz
Juan Carlos Tabío
Directed by:
Juan Carlos Tabío
Release Date:
June 2, 2000
Original Title:
Lista de espera
Alternate Titles:
Liste d'attente
Ventelisten
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Production Companies:
Canal+
DMVB Films
ICAIC
Producciones Amaranta
Programa Ibermedia
Road Movies
Tabasco Films
Tornasol Media
Vía Digital
Production Countries:
Cuba | France | Germany | Mexico | Spain
Ratings / Certifications:
AR: 13 CH: 7 FI: S FR: U MX: B
Runtime: 105
At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave.
A desperate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. While a number of busses pass by the station, and others that are either full or at the end of the line stop by, it soon becomes obvious that the bus everyone was waiting for has left them high and dry. While one of the would-be passengers, Emilio, uses his downtime to win the affections of the beautiful Jacqueline, most of the rest decide that if they're stuck without anywhere to go, they might as well make the station a better place to wait, and they begin forming a plan to turn the decrepit bus terminal into a showplace that people would look forward to visiting.
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Co-Producer:
Jorge Sánchez
Ignacio Cobo
Ulrich Felsberg
Director:
Juan Carlos Tabío
Director of Photography:
Hans Burmann
Editor:
Carmen Frías
Executive Producer:
Mariela Besuievsky
Music:
José María Vitier
Producer:
Camilo Vives
Thierry Forte
Gerardo Herrero
Screenplay:
Arturo Arango
Writer:
Juan Carlos Tabío
Senel Paz
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