COMANDANTE FRITZ
Summary
COMANDANTE FRITZ, a romantic comedy, tells the story of a young Stasi officer, Fritz (Dennis Mojen), who is on a mission in Havana during the ceremonial handover of "Isla Ernesto Thälmann" in 1972. This uninhabited Caribbean Island off the Cuban coast was given to the GDR by Fidel Castro as a gesture of friendship between the two Communist states. Fritz's mission is to thwart a CIA assassination plot against the Máximo Líder, which is plotted to take place during the handover. But Fritz's mission does not go according to plan. Under the Caribbean sun, nothing works in the way he’s used to back home. What’s more, Fritz meets a mysterious Cuban woman, Lola (Yany Prado). Thanks to Lola, the Cold War suddenly turns hot ...
Director
Pavel Giroud, born in 1973, is a Cuban director who now lives in Madrid. He studied design at the Instituto Superior de Diseño and was initially a designer and art director for films and theater productions, as well as a video artist. Giroud's first feature film, LA EDAD DE LA PESETA (2006), premiered in Toronto. It was Cuba's entry for the international Oscar and received several international awards. In 2020, the film was also listed by the Cinemateca de Cuba as one of ten films in the history of Cuban cinema with the best cinematography and art direction. In 2007, Giroud presented OMERTÀ, a film noir that also received several awards. PLAYING LECUONA (2014), about Cuban musician Ernesto Lecuona, received the award for best documentary at the Montréal Film Festival. It was followed by the feature film THE COMPANION (2015), another entry of Cuba's for the international Oscar. EL CASO PADILLA (2022), a documentary, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.
Cast
Dennis Mojen, Yany Prado, Christina Grosse, Alexis Valdes, Vladimir Cruz,Fidel Betancourt, Laura Ramos, Rainer Reiners, Lena Kalisch
Credits
Director: Pavel Giroud
Screenplay: Arturo Infante und Pavel Giroud
Produced by: FassB Filmproduktion GmbH & Co KG
Producer: Ernst Fassbender
Co-producers: Dagmar Rosenbauer, Paul Zischler, Argyris Papadimitropoulos