Abelardo Estorino, writer and author.
After the success of the film “El premio flaco”, an adaptation of a stage play, the Cuban film industry is busy adapting another play, “La casa vieja”, by Abelardo Estorino.
It will be directed by the young director Lester Hamlet, and will be adapted Mijaíl Rodríguez, while the Fondo Cubano para la Cinematografía is financing the project.
The action is being updated from the 1960’s to the present day, and deals with the themes of confrontation between the morality of the old system and the ethical renewal implicit in the arrival of the new social order.
“Casa vieja” is about Esteban’s return home, where there is a reunion with his family, where resentment, secrets and pettiness come to the surface.
The director has said that, “this movie walks the line between being theatrical and not: the Chekhovian elements, intertextual elements but the first few takes will be departures from the play.”
Some of the actors participating are Yadier Fernández, Daisy Quintana, Alberto Pujols, Susana Tejera and Isabel Santos, a legendary figure in Cuban cinema.
