Hemingway in Cuba (2004)

The story of Ernest Hemingways 30year love affair with the West Indies republic is recounted in HEMINGWAY IN CUBA Cuba captured Ernest Hemingways fertile imagination and inspired him to create nowlegendary fictional characters Harry Morgan of To Have and Have Not Thomas Hudson of Islands in the Stream and Santiago of The Old Man and the Sea The program travels to Cuba to capture Hemingways old haunts many of which remain unchanged and explores Hemingways reallife adventures in Cuba from his passion for marlin fishing and safari hunting as well as the influence of his wives and lovers on his life and work HEMINGWAY IN CUBA presents archival footage and includes interviews with Cuban scholars and Hemingway biographers who discuss how Cubas culture religion and even its volatile politics influenced this legendary American author