El acompañante
- Original title
- El acompañante
- Year
- 2015
- Running time
- 104 min.
- Country
- Cuba
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Genre
- Drama | Boxing. AIDS. 1980s
- Synopsis
- The film is set in 1988 Cuba as the government dispatched HIV patients to AIDS centers under military rule. It narrates the friendship between Horacio Romero, a Cuban boxing champion that fails a drug test and must serve as a “companion” (an euphemism for warden) of Daniel, a conflictive patient.
- Awards
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2017: Platino Awards: Nominated for Best Screenplay & Film & Values Education Award2016: Forqué Awards: Nominated for Best Hispano American Film2017: Forqué Awards: nominated to Best Latin American Film.
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