Havana - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Havana"
Havana (1990)
Timing:
2:24 (144 min)
5.8/10
140
140
6.823/10
1441
1441
6.1/10
9200
9200
Film crew
Director
Producer
Richard A. Roth
Producer
Executive Producer
Ronald L. Schwary
Executive Producer
Casting
Editor
William Steinkamp
Editor
Fredric Steinkamp
Editor
Art Direction
George Richardson
Art Direction
Costume Design
Bernie Pollack
Costume Design
Production Design
Set Decoration
Steve George
Set Decoration
Michael Seirton
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Mark Wittenberg
Makeup Artist
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Mark Smith
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Doug Hemphill
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Chris Jenkins
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Rob Hahn
Camera Operator
Sound Effects Editor
Brad Sherman
Sound Effects Editor
Joel Valentine
Sound Effects Editor
Supervising Sound Editor
J. Paul Huntsman
Supervising Sound Editor
Hairstylist
Mary Ann Valdes
Hairstylist
Lisa Tomblin
Hairstylist
Special Effects Coordinator
Tony Vandenecker
Special Effects Coordinator
First Assistant Director
David Tomblin
First Assistant Director
Boom Operator
Martin Trevis
Boom Operator
Screenplay
David Rayfiel
Screenplay
Judith Rascoe
Screenplay
Location Manager
Robin Citrin
Location Manager
Story
Judith Rascoe
Story
Music
Sound Engineer
Don Brown
Sound Engineer
Choreographer
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, Sydney Pollack wanted to film directly in Havana, but this proved impossible for several reasons. At that time, it was illegal for US citizens to legally visit Cuba. According to then-current US law, producers were not allowed to invest money in filming in Cuba. Official relations between Cuba and the United States were extremely strained in 1989-1990. Therefore, filming was organized in another Caribbean country – the Dominican Republic. The vegetation there was similar, and there was some resemblance in the architecture. The final scene was filmed in Key West, Florida.
- Many of the extras were political emigrants from Cuba, residing in the Dominican Republic during the film's production. According to director Sydney Pollack, the atmosphere on set was quite emotional, as the extras reminisced about the homeland they had left three decades prior.
- Approximately one hundred American cars and buses from the 1950s were used in the filming.
- Around 2,000 extras and supporting actors were involved in the film, requiring between 8,000 and 10,000 costumes, as many of them changed outfits during the shooting of various scenes.
- The central plotline, featuring three main characters and a woman forced to choose between her husband and his rival – with the latter ultimately saving the couple out of simple human kindness – was borrowed from Michael Curtiz’s melodrama “Casablanca” (1942).
- The main filming location was a street section lined with facades of casinos, restaurants, and hotels. Interior scenes were shot in recreated interiors of casino gambling halls, hotel rooms, and cafes. Havana’s Prado Boulevard was recreated on the grounds of a former US Air Force base in the Dominican Republic. Around 300 people worked on this. Over 80 neon signs were made in the US and delivered to the Dominican Republic. It took 20 weeks to build the main filming location.
- The original screenplay for the film was written by Judith Rascoe in the mid-1970s. At that time, Jack Nicholson and Jane Fonda were slated to star in the film, but they left the project due to delays in the start of filming.
- Raúl Juliá appeared in a supporting, but important role for the plot of the film. This actor received an 'Oscar' for Best Actor for his work in Héctor Babenco's drama 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' (1985), but he wasn't even mentioned in the credits of 'Havana'. The actor himself wanted his name to appear in the credits immediately after Robert Redford's, but for contractual reasons this was impossible, and then Juliá asked that his name not be included in the credits at all. That is why Lena Olin's name followed Redford's in the credits, followed by Alan Arkin's.
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