Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.
- Chauffeur
- (as Géza v. Földessy)
- Doctor #1 in Puerto Rico
- (uncredited)
- Steward
- (uncredited)
- Ship Officer
- (uncredited)
- Passerby
- (uncredited)
- Mr. Söderblom
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFinnish censorship visa # 201303.
- GoofsThere are two scenes in the film where currency is shown. The notes are visibly the wrong size to be US currency. As further visual confirmation that this cannot be US currency, the notes vary in size by denomination. The film is set in Puerto Rico, which is a US territory and has used US dollars as currency exclusively since 1913.
- Quotes
Astree Sternhjelm: You know, I turned back at the last moment ten years ago as the steamer was casting off. The island seemed to me like a paradise back then. Later, it came to seem like hell.
Dr. Sven Nagel: And now?
Astree Sternhjelm: Now? I have no regrets.
Dr. Sven Nagel: Regret is always foolish.
Astree Sternhjelm: La Habanera...
- ConnectionsEdited into Bellaria - So lange wir leben! (2002)
Horak goes on to say that in this film, Puerto Rico is exciting, exotic and dangerous, a typography of the Other, while Sweden represents "all that is Heimat". A vision of Aryan homeland, and thus a site for subliminal Nazi ideology. Did Sirk do no more than artistically mirror the status quo? I think not.Sirk was a successful director of "women's pictures" in the early days of the Third Reich, just as he was in the America of the '50's. What is oppositional in his work is not any kind of obvious political subtext, but an attitude towards image and material where the despotic Don Pedro is counterpoised with the smothering, nearly incestuous Astree. And both of them are covered in shadows, slats, mirrors, flowers - all of the accoutrements of the Sirkian hothouse atmosphere. Some sickly-sweet, unhealthy thing is always insinuating itself into the mise - en - scene. Sirk is like what Walter Benjamin called Baudelaire: a secret agent of his class and society. His missives send images of that society to its members that correspond to the vision they have of themselves. And underneath that there is another level of text. Nothing so obvious as "critique". But portraiture - "la verite en peinture" - sometimes as devastating as Goya's.
- antcol8
- Jun 8, 2006
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- La habanera
- Filming locations
- Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain(as the island of Puerto Rico)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
- 1.37 : 1