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Credits

Cast

  • Director
  • Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando
  • Screenplay
  • Fernando Trueba, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
  • Music
  • Bebo Valdés
  • Produced
  • Cristina Huete, Santi Errando, Martin Pope,
    Michael Rose
  • Executive Producers
  • Steve Christian, Marc Samuelson
  • Co-producer
  • Andrew Fingret
  • Associate Producer
  • Antonio Resines
  • Executive Director of Production
  • Angélica Huete
  • Head of Production
  • Albert García Vila
  • Animation Direction
  • Manolo Galiana
  • Character Creative Direction
  • Bojan Pantelic
  • Colour Direction
  • Nuria Puig
  • 3D Technical Direction
  • David Campassol
  • 2D Technical Direction
  • Jose Carlos Jiménez
  • Art Supervisor
  • Pedrín E. Mariscal
  • Storyboard Supervisor
  • Carlos Arroyo
  • Character Development
  • Marcello Quintanilha
  • Editor
  • Arnau Quiles
  • Sound Editor
  • Pelayo Gutiérrez
  • Sound Mixer
  • Nacho Royo-Villanova

Songs performed by

  • Bebo Valdés
  • Chico
  • Idania Valdés
  • Rita
  • Estrella Morente
  • Estrella Morente
  • Freddy Cole
  • Nat King Cole
  • Jimmy Heath
  • Ben Webster
  • Pedrito Martínez
  • Miguelito Valdés
  • Michael Phillip Mossman
  • Dizzie Gilliespie
  • Amadito Valdés
  • Tito Puente
  • Germán Velazco
  • Charlie Parker
  • Yaroldi Abreu
  • Chano Pozo
  • Rolando Luna
  • Chico (Celia)
 

Starring the voices of

  • Limara Meneses
  • Rita
  • Emar Xor Oña
  • Chico
  • Mario Guerra
  • Ramón
  • "A brilliant homage to the cinema, to music and to love stories"

    Luis Martínez / El Mundo

  • "A stunning series of images, a genuine visual feast."

    Llàtzer Moix / La Vanguardia

  • "One is left with the sensation of having seen something familiar, warm and, let’s confess, beautiful"

    Luis Martínez / El Mundo

  • "The architecture of Havana and New York filtered by Mariscal’s particular iconography. "

    Federico Simón / El País

  • "Riddled with movie references as well as musical ones. It is a tribute that is full of sensuality."

    N. S. / El Periódico

  • "Mariscal and Trueba’s creative torrent flows through a city with wide open balconies. "

    C. Jiménez / Ine.es

  • "One of the best films ever made about jazz, I can’t think of any other that is truer and more moving."

    Gary Giddins / Film Comment

  • "Mariscal has captured the essence of Havana in the 40s and 50s with impressive beauty, detail and colour. "

    Rebeca Mauleón

  • "An intense and sexy yet turbulent love story"

    telegraph.co.uk

  • "It transports you to the vibrant, violent, sensual world of Havana in the 40s."

    Laura Snoad  / designweek.co.uk

  • "Visually hypnotic, musically electric "

    Stephen Farber / Film Review

  • "The elegant Central Park winter scene is memorable"

    Stephen Farber / Film Review

  • "The best musical of the year"

    Philip French / The Observer

  • "Mariscal has created the sexiest cartoon female since Jessica Rabbit. "

    Paul Whitington / Independent

  • "For all the romantics out there"

    Helen O'Hara / Empire

  • "Absolutely unique"

    Chris Sullivan / Metropoli

  • "The golden age of cartoons continues"

    Pam Grady / Movies.Yahoo.

  • "Pure pleasure"

    Meredith Brody / ThompsonOnHollywood

  • "A feast for one’s sight and hearing, These are easily the best 90 minutes I’ve spent in the cinema this year."

    Joseph Fahim /Daily News Egypt

  • "Impeccable work of art"

    David Jenkins / Time Out

  • "The virtuosity does not decline in this visually impressive and musically rich film"

    Lisa Mullen / Sight and Sound

  • "I have fallen in love with a film full of so much life, warmth and love and it reminded me what style in the movies is about"

    Shane McNeil / Toronto Film Scene

  • "This is a classical Hollywood film and truly a work of art"

    Shane McNeil / Toronto Film Scene

  • "Mariscal's drawings are magical"

    Jenny McCartney / Seven The Sunday

  • "The best jazz soundtrack in decades"

    Chris Sullivan / Metropoli

  • "One of the 10 best films of the year"

    Mark Kermode (BBC)

  • "Almost unimaginably rich and resonant!"

    AO Scott  / NY Times

  • "A swooningly beautiful, adults-only drama!"

    Lou Lumenick / New York Post

  • "Chico & Rita is the first big serendipitous surprise of 2012! A dazzling and delightful work of modernist animation!"

    Andrew O-Hehir / Salon

  • "The grown-up choice to win this year’s oscar for animated feature!"

    Marshall Fine / Huffington Post