César Évora Díaz

Acting

César Évora Díaz

Born 1959-11-04 · Havana, Cuba

César Évora Díaz (Havana, November 4, 1959) is a Cuban actor who has developed most of his career in Mexico. He studied Geophysics, to dedicate himself to the search for oil and minerals, until one day he decided to appear at a casting, where he was selected among 500 applicants. After working in his native country, he decided to settle permanently in Mexico. Lives in Mexico City. In 1999 he obtained Mexican nationality. children: Rafael, Mariana and Carla.

Acting credits

How to Murder a Dead Husband poster
4.3

Carolina, married to Germán, decides to put an end to her husband's deceptions and after surprising him with her new lover, she decides to leave him but now Germán has taken her daughters away and everything she loves. Germán dies but he has kept a last surprise up his sleeve and even after death, will continue tormenting Carolina.

How to Murder a Dead Husband

2017

La Madrastra: Años después poster
NR

Set ten years after the finale's quintuple wedding, the special portrays the happily reunited San Román family, including four new grandchildren, as well as the Xochimilco residents. The San Románs go to Patricia's lake cabin in order to celebrate their shared ten-year wedding anniversary, unaware that Demetrio, whom they believe died after escaping from prison a year prior, is actually alive and well and is conspiring with his grandson, Ángel and Alma's young son Angelito, and the San Román grandchildren's nanny, Diana, to kill the entire family.

La Madrastra: Años después

2005

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NR

Five years after the passing of the iconic filmmaker Humberto Solas, one of the founders of the New Latin American Cinema, partners, friends and family gather to evoke aspects of the life and work of Cuban artist of universal size.

Humberto

2014

Super Firefighters poster
7.2

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Super Firefighters

2019

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10.0

In 1937, the young French engineer Jo Dupuche landed a job in Ecuador, with the promise of a better life. While he stops on a Caribbean island, he discovers that the mine where he was hired has gone bankrupt and finds himself penniless. Trapped with his wife in the tropics, the couple must cope. While his wife finds work thanks to white settlers, Jo is housed in a ghetto where he forms a romantic relationship with a young prostitute. Shot on 35mm in Cuba at the end of the 1980s with all the constraints inherent to the country, this TV film paints an uncompromising picture of colonialism in line with the eponymous novel by Simenon (1934).

Quartier nègre

1990

Capablanca poster
7.0

1925. José Raúl Capablanca, a famous Cuban chess player and employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arrives in Moscow for an international chess tournament. The trip, taking place under Machado's dictatorship, casts doubt on his future in this position. The film shows Capablanca's dramatic matches with Lasker, Tartakower, and Bogolubov, his tragic love for Bolshoi Theatre ballerina Sasha Mozhaeva, and a simultaneous game in which he lost to the very young Mikhail Botvinnik.

Capablanca

1987

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4.0

The world of a young psychiatrist is shattered when she finds out that her husband is having an affair with one of her patients.

Habanera

1984

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6.8

In 1914, during World Ward I, Amada, a bourgeois wife, falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a young idealist who is fighting against the Cuban regime in power.

Beloved

1982

Tropic of Blood poster
5.8

Dominican Republic is under the sway of dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, who has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1930. The Mirabal Sisters, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa, involved in an underground movement against the government, dared to defy the dictator. But this act of bravery and courage leads to tragic consequences.

Tropic of Blood

2010

La bella del Alhambra poster
8.2

In 1920s Havana, Rachel is a showgirl who longs to become a headliner at the incredibly popular Alhambra theater. On her way to attain that, she loses the love of her life and falls into the clutches of a passion that nearly destroys her career.

La bella del Alhambra

1989

A Successful Man poster
5.7

Javier Argüelles, an opportunistic young man from Cuban middle class, survives all kind of political changes in Havana, from 1932 to 1959, while his brother Darío is persecuted and killed because of his leftist ideas.

A Successful Man

1986

Gertrudis poster
6.4

The life and execution of Gertrudis Bocanegra, a sympathizer of the libertarian cause and a prominent figure in Mexico's independence from Spain.

Gertrudis

1992

What Time Is It? poster
9.0

Based on Elena Garro's short story, it's a story where love and loneliness are linked through a hotel room, where a woman awaits for an old and impossible love.

What Time Is It?

1996

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NR

The story of three women, of very different epochs, whose lives are strangely parallel. The first story, during colonial times, has a man brutalizing both his wife and a female black servant. Parallel with this story is that of a modern couple who perpetuate the stereotyped role of the woman as subservient.

Ecos

1987