Boleto al paraíso : una historia inspirada en hechos reales / English title: Ticket to paradise El Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos, Malas Compañías P.C., S.L., Fundación Villa del Cine presentan ; una película de Gerardo Chijona ; dirección, Gerardo Chijona ; argumento, Francisco García, Gerardo Chijona ; guión, Francisco García, Gerardo Chijona, Maykel Rodríguez. , Cuba - 1 online resource (1 video file (88 min.)) : sound, color.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2010. Inspired by testimonials from "SIDA : Confesiones a un médico" by Jorge Pérez Ávila.

Cinematographer, Raúl Pérez Ureta; editor, Miriam Talavera; music, Edesio Alejandro. Cinematographer, Raúl Pérez Ureta; editor, Miriam Talavera; music, Edesio Alejandro.

Miriel Cejas, Héctor Medina, Dunia Matos, Saray Vargas, Fabián Mora, Ariadna Núñez, Luis Alberto García, Blanca Rosa Blanco, Jorge Perugorría, Alberto Pujol, Enrique Molina, Laura de la Uz.

A drama which takes an unflinching look at one especially grim phenomenon of the "Special Period" in the early 1990s: young people who, having no other resources, deliberately infected themselves with AIDS to secure food and shelter at state-run sanatoriums.


In Spanish with English subtitles.

Winner of the Feature Film Trophy, at Cine Ceará - National Cinema Festival 2011: Best actor (Héctor Medina) Winner of a Silver Biznaga, at Málaga Spanish Film Festival 2011: Best Latin American Film


AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Cuba--Drama.
Youth--Social conditions--Cuba--Drama.
AIDS (Disease)--Cuba--Drama.


Cuba--History--1990---Drama.
Cuba--Economic conditions--1990---Drama.


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