Cuba
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Cuban culture is much influenced by the fact that it is a melting pot of cultures, primarily from Spain and Africa. It has produced more than its fair share of literature, including the output of non-Cubans Stephen Crane, and Ernest Hemingway.[1] [May 2007]
Film
Before Night Falls is a 2000 movie directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay, based on the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas, was written by Schnabel, Cunningham O'Keefe and Lázaro Gómez Carriles. It stars Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Santiago Magill, Johnny Depp and Michael Wincott and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor (Javier Bardem).