Wasp Network, written and directed by Olivier Assayas based on the book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War by Fernando Morais, has landed on Netflix. It stars Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez, Gael García Bernal and Ana de Armas and is based on the true story of the ‘Cuban Five’ (aka Miami Five) who were arrested and imprisoned in the USA as spies in the late ‘90s. The five were Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González, though Wasp Network focuses attention primarily on René González and Gerardo Hernández of the five.
They were Cubans who travelled from Cuba under Fidel Castro’s regime, to Florida and became part of a group called the Wasp Network (La Red Avispa) who infiltrated anti-Castro Cuban exile groups based in Miami so they could feed information back to the Cuban government. Hernández (played by Gael Garcia Bernal in Wasp...
They were Cubans who travelled from Cuba under Fidel Castro’s regime, to Florida and became part of a group called the Wasp Network (La Red Avispa) who infiltrated anti-Castro Cuban exile groups based in Miami so they could feed information back to the Cuban government. Hernández (played by Gael Garcia Bernal in Wasp...
- 7/2/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Canada’s Pictou Twist Pictures and Picture Plant have partnered with Cuban film institute Icaic to co-produce the definitive account of the Cuban Five — Cuban intelligence agents arrested on spying charges by U.S. authorities in 1998.
Pictou Twist producer Barrie Dunn has penned the screenplay on “The Cuban Five” (“Los Cinco”), which is based on Stephen Kimber’s non-fiction book “What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of The Cuban Five.”
“What Lies” relates how in the 1990s, Fidel Castro’s government dispatched five Cuban intelligence agents to Florida to infiltrate exiled terrorist groups targeting civilians in Miami in a bid to destabilize Castro’s regime. Instead, they were arrested and sentenced to lengthy jail terms on charges of espionage in Miami. Ironically, the leading Cuban exile militant, Luis Posada, remained free.
Kimber came upon their story while visiting Havana in 2009. His four-year investigation led him to Washington, D.C.
Pictou Twist producer Barrie Dunn has penned the screenplay on “The Cuban Five” (“Los Cinco”), which is based on Stephen Kimber’s non-fiction book “What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of The Cuban Five.”
“What Lies” relates how in the 1990s, Fidel Castro’s government dispatched five Cuban intelligence agents to Florida to infiltrate exiled terrorist groups targeting civilians in Miami in a bid to destabilize Castro’s regime. Instead, they were arrested and sentenced to lengthy jail terms on charges of espionage in Miami. Ironically, the leading Cuban exile militant, Luis Posada, remained free.
Kimber came upon their story while visiting Havana in 2009. His four-year investigation led him to Washington, D.C.
- 9/6/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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