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HORN OF PLENTY

By Juan Carlos TABIO

Comedy - Completed 2008

In the eighteenth century, a group of Castineiras nuns deposited treasure in a British bank. Buoyed by the promise of wealth, Castineiras descendents throughout Cuba band together to try to prove their eligibility as legitimate heirs.
From the director of GUATANEMERA and STRAWBERRY & CHOCOLATE.

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- SPAIN, CUBA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Juan Carlos TABIO
- Writer(s)
- Arturo ARANGO, Juan Carlos TABIO
- Cast
- Jorge PERUGORRÍA, Yoima VALDÉS, Laura DE LA UZ, Mirtha IBARRA, Vladimir CRUZ
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-82DB-0000-R-0000-0000-U
- EIDR
- 10.5240/8F1D-21A0-E099-8EB5-04CE-U
- Producer(s)
- Camilo VIVES (ICAIC), Gerardo HERRERO (TORNASOL FILMS), Mariela BESUIEVSKY (TORNASOL FILMS)
- Synopsis
- According to a newspaper article, more than 25.000 Cubans maintaine they are the heirs to an unclaimed multi-million dollar fortune held in the coffers of a British bank.
  In a small town in Cuba, the news explodes like a firecracker: all those with the family name of Castiñeiras will receive a juicy inheritance which some nuns deposited in a bank in England in the 18th century.
  All the people with that family name begin proceedings to get their part, but as one can imagine, many obstacles arise along the way. Bernardito (Jorge Perugorría) is the leader of this crazy treasure hunt...
  Following GUANTANAMERA and LISTA DE ESPERA, Juan Carlos Tabío returns to comedy, looking at Cuban society with his corrosive wit.