Havana is a drama film starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin and Raúl Juliá, directed by Sydney Pollack with music by Dave Grusin, and released in 1990. In the film, an American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran , the wife of a revolutionary, Arturo . Shortly after their arrival, Arturo is taken away by the secret police, and Roberta is captured and tortured. Jack frees her, but she continues to support the revolution. The plot is set on the Eve of the victory of the Cuban Revolution, January 1,... 1959. On Christmas Eve, 1958 aboard the boat from Miami to Havana, Roberta Duran enlists the aid of Jack Weil in smuggling in U.S. Army Signal Corps radios destined for the Cuban revolutionary forces in the hills. Jack Weil agrees only because he is romantically interested in Ms. Duran. When they rendezvous for the "payoff", Roberta reveals she is married, dashing Weil's hopes. Weil meets up with a Cuban journalist acquaintance and during a night on the town they run into Roberta Duran and her husband, Dr. Arturo Duran. Dr.
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| Release date: | December 12, 1990 |
| Directed by: | Sydney Pollack |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 140 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sydney Pollack, Richard A. Roth |
| Editor: | Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp |
| Music by: | Dave Grusin |
| Cinematography: | Owen Roizman |