Up to a Certain Point (Spanish: Hasta cierto punto) is a 1983 Cuban movie directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. It focuses on a theater director who starts up a relationship with a female dockworker. However, his machismo complicates matters.

Up to a Certain Point (English)
Hasta cierto punto (Spanish)
Directed byTomás Gutiérrez Alea
Written byTomás Gutiérrez Alea
Serafín Quiñones
Juan Carlos Tabío
Produced byHumberto Hernández
StarringÓscar Álvarez
Mirta Ibarra
Omar Valdés
Coralia Veloz
Rogelio Blain
Ana Viña
CinematographyMario García Joya
Edited byMiriam Talavera
Music byLeo Brouwer
Production
company
Distributed byICAIC (Cuba)
New Yorker Films (USA)
Release dates
  • 1983 (1983) (Cuba)
  • 13 March 1985 (1985-03-13) (USA)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryCuba
LanguageSpanish

The movie is a general look at gender roles in Cuba as well as the conflict between machismo and the idealized image of liberated women under communism.

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