Buena Vista Social Club
Directed by	Wim Wenders
Produced by	Rosa Bosch, Ulrich Felsberg, Deepak Nayar
Written by	Wim Wenders
Starring	Luis Barzaga, Joachim Cooder, Ry Cooder, Juan de Marcos González, Julio Alberto Fernández, Ibrahim Ferrer, Carlos González, Rubén González, Salvador Repilado Labrada, Pío Leyva, Manuel 'Puntillita' Licea, Orlando 'Cachaíto' López, Benito Suárez Magana, Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Julienne Oviedo Sánchez, Compay Segundo, Barbarito Torres, Alberto 'Virgilio' Valdés, Amadito Valdés, Lázaro Villa
Editing by	Monica Anderson Brian Johnson
Release date	February 17 1999(Berlin International Film Festival)
Running time	105 min.
Language	English / Spanish
IMDb profile

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The film documents how Ry Cooder, long-time friend of Wenders, brought together legendary Cuban musicians to record a CD of the same name, and to perform a concert in the USA. Although geographically close, travel between Cuba and the USA is restricted due to the political tension between the two countries, so many of the artists were travelling there for the first time. The film shows their reactions to this experience, as well as including footage of the resultant sell-out concert. It also includes touching interviews with each of the main performers. Ryland Ry Peter Cooder (born on March 15, 1947) is a guitarist especially well known for his slide guitar work. ...

It made the musicians, some of them already in their nineties, known to a world-wide audience, and some went on to release popular solo albums; these included Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubén González and Elíades Ochoa. Ibrahim Ferrer (February 20, 1927 – August 6, 2005) was a popular Afro-Cuban musician in Cuba. ... Compay Segundo and cuban president Fidel Castro Compay Segundo (November 18, 1907 – July 13, 2003), was a Cuban musician and songwriter. ... Introducing. ... Elíades Ochoa is a Cuban guitarist and singer born in Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago on June 22, 1946. ...

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2000. It won as best documentary in the European Film Awards as well as many others. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... The European Movie Awards are the most prestigious paneuropean movie awards. ...

There is also an album by the same name, which features studio versions of the music heard in the movie. Buena Vista Social Club is an album featuring Cuban music. ...

Musicians (in order of appearance)

• Francisco Repilado, "Compay Segundo" (vocals and tres)
• Eliades Ochoa (vocals and guitar)
• Ry Cooder (slide guitar)
• Joachim Cooder, his son (percussion)
• Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals, congas, claves, bongos)
• Omara Portuondo (vocals)
• Rubén González (piano)
• Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez (Double bass)
• Amadito Valdés
• Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal (trumpet)
• Barbarito Torres (laud)
• Pío Leyva
• Manuel "Puntillita" Licea (vocals)
• Juan de Marcos González (güiro)

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Songs in the film (in order of appearance)

• "Chan Chan" (Francisco Repilado)
• "Silencio" (Rafael Hernandez)
• "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Harry Warren and Mack Gordon)
• "Dos Gardenias" (Isolina Carillo)
• "Veinte Años" (Maria Teresa Vera),
• "Y Tu Que Has Hecho" (Eusebio Delfin),
• "Black Bottom" (Ray Henderson, Lew Brown and B. G. De Sylva)
• "Canto Siboney" (Ernesto Lecuona),
• "El Carretero" (Guillermito Portulez)
• "Cienfuegos (tiene su guaguanco)" (Victor Lay)
• "Begin The Beguine" (Cole Porter)
• "Buena Vista Social Club" (Orestes Lopez, inventor of the mambo in 1937)
• "Mandinga" (also known as "Bilongo", Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe)
• "Candela" (Faustino Oramas),
• "Chanchullo" (Israel "Cachao" Lopez, the father of Cachaito)
• "El cuarto de Tula" (son/descarga, Sergo Siaba),
• "Guateque Campesino" (Celia Romeo "Guateque"),
• "Nuestra Ultima Cita" (Forero Esther)
• "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" (boléro by Oswaldo Farres).

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External links

• Buena Vista Social Club at The Internet Movie Database
• Comprehensive PBS Site about the film
• (French) Site about Buena Vista Social Club