
Directing
Eduardo del Llano Rodríguez
Born
1962-10-09 (64)
Place of birth
Moscow, USSR (Russia)
Known for
Directing
Credits
50 titles
Eduardo del Llano Rodríguez (Moscow, 1962) is a Cuban writer, university professor, screenwriter, and film director. He earned a degree in Art History from the University of Havana in 1985, and during the 1980s he was part of the theatre and literary group NOS-Y-OTROS. He trained with Jorge Goldenberg, Tom Abrams, and Walter Bernstein in the craft of screenwriting, while working as a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana (History of Latin American Art and Photography). With the short film Monte Rouge (a satire about the work of the Cuban State Security), he took a critical stance toward the Cuban regime, although Eduardo del Llano made it clear that it wa…
Known for
NRIn a tenement in a poor Havana neighborhood, four men are playing a game of dominoes: Rodríguez and Nicanor versus Sangremono and Pepe “the Victim.” Once the game has begun, Rodríguez suddenly mentions that he has heard some astonishing news that concerns the future of the country and every one of its inhabitants…
Domino
2017
NRCuba, 1961. A young teacher arrives with the intention of teaching a peasant family to read and write…
The Campaign
2021
NRNicanor, his wife, and his in-laws watch Cuban television. In a single twenty-minute shot, the differences surface between Nicanor, who supports the Revolution, and his father-in-law Damián Rodríguez, a former Batista supporter. The two women try in vain to mediate, and the conflict seems irreconcilable. However, they have no choice but to make up with each other every night.
Homo Sapiens
2006
5.8Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
Life Is to Whistle
1998
NRFictional documentary in which researchers and ordinary citizens try to clarify the abrupt disappearance from the political scene of leaders once known as “trusted men,” and how they have been sighted in the most unlikely places. Finding these men and confronting them on camera is the goal of two investigators.
The Legend of the Abominable Trusted Men
2016
Nicanor has been arrested for doing graffiti at three in the morning. Against all logic, the graffiti is in favor of the government. The police captain who interrogates him—a cultured policeman, for a change—tries to understand why he does it.
Pravda
2010
Film credits
2010s · 6 titles
At the age of 24, and with serious charges hanging over him, Leonardo da Vinci is thrown into a Florentine dungeon where several common criminals are rotting away.
Vinci
2011
NRCuba has changed in the near future, but Nicanor and his friends still meet in a park to talk about politics…
Dos veteranos
2019
No synopsis available yet.
La teoría cubana de la sociedad perfecta
2018
10.0Havana, 1974. Almost every day, Ana puts a cuban flag on the balcony. The flag is faded and full of stains. Ana suggests to her husband Nicanor to get another one. From there the couple will be doomed to unexpected complications...
Aché
2010
NRA group of actors shows up to audition for the lead role in a co-production with Germany. Through their interviews and interactions, their miseries, desires, and frustrations are gradually revealed. The selection process takes three days; in the end, there is only one winner…
Casting
2013
NRRodrigo, a famous European artist, comes to Cuba to create a collage using photos of one hundred Cuban artists. Wanting the photos to reflect the anguish inherent in the creative process, he can think of nothing better than hiring the worker Nicanor O’Donnell to punch the one hundred artists in the face for a fee of five euros per head. Knowing that the collage will be exhibited all over the world, the artists line up to be beaten. Nicanor, who at first believes he has stumbled upon the deal of his life, is dismayed to discover that he must hit elderly people, women, artists he admires…
Exit
2011
2000s · 4 titles
At the elementary school where Evita, Nicanor’s daughter, studies, the parents are instructed that the children must bring photos of various independence heroes for an important activity the next day. That night, when he discovers that they do not have any photos of heroes at home, Nicanor will have to go out and look for them, no matter what it takes.
Photoshop
2006
NRNicanor has just finished the ritual of preparing himself a gourmet coffee when two strangers knock at his door. They identify themselves as members of State Security, who have come to install microphones in his house to listen to the antigovernment remarks Nicanor makes. Since they only have two microphones, they ask for his help in choosing the best room to install them and tell him that from now on he can only make his comments in that room.
Monte Rouge
2004
NRA world record, an accident, a heroic act, a matter of scientific interest. All this happens simultaneously. The editorial board of the newspaper La Avanzada must decide what goes on the front page.
Brainstorm
2009
NRAt an unspecified event, everyone votes in favor. Unexpectedly, there is one vote against: Nicanor O’Donnell’s. When Nicanor goes to the bathroom during the intermission, some curious delegates follow him, eager to find out why he dared to vote against. The suspicion that someone is locked in a stall, listening to everything, turns their sympathy into mistrust toward Nicanor. But the one locked in the stall is also a poor wretch.
Intermezzo
2008
Behind the camera
NRIn a tenement in a poor Havana neighborhood, four men are playing a game of dominoes: Rodríguez and Nicanor versus Sangremono and Pepe “the Victim.” Once the game has begun, Rodríguez suddenly mentions that he has heard some astonishing news that concerns the future of the country and every one of its inhabitants…
Domino
2017
NRIn a tenement in a poor Havana neighborhood, four men are playing a game of dominoes: Rodríguez and Nicanor versus Sangremono and Pepe “the Victim.” Once the game has begun, Rodríguez suddenly mentions that he has heard some astonishing news that concerns the future of the country and every one of its inhabitants…
Domino
2017
NRCuba, 1961. A young teacher arrives with the intention of teaching a peasant family to read and write…
The Campaign
2021
NRCuba, 1961. A young teacher arrives with the intention of teaching a peasant family to read and write…
The Campaign
2021
NRNicanor, his wife, and his in-laws watch Cuban television. In a single twenty-minute shot, the differences surface between Nicanor, who supports the Revolution, and his father-in-law Damián Rodríguez, a former Batista supporter. The two women try in vain to mediate, and the conflict seems irreconcilable. However, they have no choice but to make up with each other every night.
Homo Sapiens
2006
NRNicanor, his wife, and his in-laws watch Cuban television. In a single twenty-minute shot, the differences surface between Nicanor, who supports the Revolution, and his father-in-law Damián Rodríguez, a former Batista supporter. The two women try in vain to mediate, and the conflict seems irreconcilable. However, they have no choice but to make up with each other every night.
Homo Sapiens
2006
5.8Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
Life Is to Whistle
1998
NRFictional documentary in which researchers and ordinary citizens try to clarify the abrupt disappearance from the political scene of leaders once known as “trusted men,” and how they have been sighted in the most unlikely places. Finding these men and confronting them on camera is the goal of two investigators.
The Legend of the Abominable Trusted Men
2016
NRFictional documentary in which researchers and ordinary citizens try to clarify the abrupt disappearance from the political scene of leaders once known as “trusted men,” and how they have been sighted in the most unlikely places. Finding these men and confronting them on camera is the goal of two investigators.
The Legend of the Abominable Trusted Men
2016
NRFictional documentary in which researchers and ordinary citizens try to clarify the abrupt disappearance from the political scene of leaders once known as “trusted men,” and how they have been sighted in the most unlikely places. Finding these men and confronting them on camera is the goal of two investigators.
The Legend of the Abominable Trusted Men
2016
Nicanor has been arrested for doing graffiti at three in the morning. Against all logic, the graffiti is in favor of the government. The police captain who interrogates him—a cultured policeman, for a change—tries to understand why he does it.
Pravda
2010
Nicanor has been arrested for doing graffiti at three in the morning. Against all logic, the graffiti is in favor of the government. The police captain who interrogates him—a cultured policeman, for a change—tries to understand why he does it.
Pravda
2010
At the elementary school where Evita, Nicanor’s daughter, studies, the parents are instructed that the children must bring photos of various independence heroes for an important activity the next day. That night, when he discovers that they do not have any photos of heroes at home, Nicanor will have to go out and look for them, no matter what it takes.
Photoshop
2006
At the elementary school where Evita, Nicanor’s daughter, studies, the parents are instructed that the children must bring photos of various independence heroes for an important activity the next day. That night, when he discovers that they do not have any photos of heroes at home, Nicanor will have to go out and look for them, no matter what it takes.
Photoshop
2006
5.2Javier is an actor with an affinity for writing. When he begins his love story with Luisita, he does not know where the truth begins and ends. Fifteen years later he has converted his story into literature that relates his tragic love story in a creative way.
Madrigal
2007
NRNicanor has just finished the ritual of preparing himself a gourmet coffee when two strangers knock at his door. They identify themselves as members of State Security, who have come to install microphones in his house to listen to the antigovernment remarks Nicanor makes. Since they only have two microphones, they ask for his help in choosing the best room to install them and tell him that from now on he can only make his comments in that room.
Monte Rouge
2004
NRNicanor has just finished the ritual of preparing himself a gourmet coffee when two strangers knock at his door. They identify themselves as members of State Security, who have come to install microphones in his house to listen to the antigovernment remarks Nicanor makes. Since they only have two microphones, they ask for his help in choosing the best room to install them and tell him that from now on he can only make his comments in that room.
Monte Rouge
2004
NRA world record, an accident, a heroic act, a matter of scientific interest. All this happens simultaneously. The editorial board of the newspaper La Avanzada must decide what goes on the front page.
Brainstorm
2009
NRA world record, an accident, a heroic act, a matter of scientific interest. All this happens simultaneously. The editorial board of the newspaper La Avanzada must decide what goes on the front page.
Brainstorm
2009
At the age of 24, and with serious charges hanging over him, Leonardo da Vinci is thrown into a Florentine dungeon where several common criminals are rotting away.
Vinci
2011
At the age of 24, and with serious charges hanging over him, Leonardo da Vinci is thrown into a Florentine dungeon where several common criminals are rotting away.
Vinci
2011
NRA hundred years from now, there is a world war. The fighting is not over territories or ideologies, but over establishing one form of healthy eating above all others. Nick is a Veg (vegetarian) soldier who is taken prisoner by the Macs (macrobiotics). In prison he meets Ana, a beautiful Ollie (ovolacto vegetarian). Together they look for ways to escape, or at least to survive…
Omega 3
2014
NRA hundred years from now, there is a world war. The fighting is not over territories or ideologies, but over establishing one form of healthy eating above all others. Nick is a Veg (vegetarian) soldier who is taken prisoner by the Macs (macrobiotics). In prison he meets Ana, a beautiful Ollie (ovolacto vegetarian). Together they look for ways to escape, or at least to survive…
Omega 3
2014
NRFefo dies, but at his wake the widow’s sadness will soon be offset by some news that brings joy back into her life.
We Are Nothing
2014
NRFefo dies, but at his wake the widow’s sadness will soon be offset by some news that brings joy back into her life.
We Are Nothing
2014
NRCuba has changed in the near future, but Nicanor and his friends still meet in a park to talk about politics…
Dos veteranos
2019
NRCuba has changed in the near future, but Nicanor and his friends still meet in a park to talk about politics…
Dos veteranos
2019
Nicanor O’Donnell, a visual artist, successfully opens his exhibition “With a Dark and Mourning Soul.” However, the next day he is urgently called to the gallery because troubling mishaps are occurring. Nicanor must cooperate with the authorities and decide the ultimate fate of his art.
Arte
2015
Nicanor O’Donnell, a visual artist, successfully opens his exhibition “With a Dark and Mourning Soul.” However, the next day he is urgently called to the gallery because troubling mishaps are occurring. Nicanor must cooperate with the authorities and decide the ultimate fate of his art.
Arte
2015
10.0Havana, 1974. Almost every day, Ana puts a cuban flag on the balcony. The flag is faded and full of stains. Ana suggests to her husband Nicanor to get another one. From there the couple will be doomed to unexpected complications...
Aché
2010
10.0Havana, 1974. Almost every day, Ana puts a cuban flag on the balcony. The flag is faded and full of stains. Ana suggests to her husband Nicanor to get another one. From there the couple will be doomed to unexpected complications...
Aché
2010
10.0Havana, 1974. Almost every day, Ana puts a cuban flag on the balcony. The flag is faded and full of stains. Ana suggests to her husband Nicanor to get another one. From there the couple will be doomed to unexpected complications...
Aché
2010
NRA group of actors shows up to audition for the lead role in a co-production with Germany. Through their interviews and interactions, their miseries, desires, and frustrations are gradually revealed. The selection process takes three days; in the end, there is only one winner…
Casting
2013
NRA group of actors shows up to audition for the lead role in a co-production with Germany. Through their interviews and interactions, their miseries, desires, and frustrations are gradually revealed. The selection process takes three days; in the end, there is only one winner…
Casting
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hacerse el Sueco
2001
Nicanor, a Health Ministry employee, returns from a trip to Germany bringing some sex toys with which to spice up his marriage. His wife Ana is reluctant at first, but Nicanor insists on using the devices and talks to his friend Rodríguez, who speaks German, to have him translate the instruction booklet. However, the shortages and the need to survive in today’s Cuba will play one dirty trick after another on them…
High Tech
2005
Nicanor, a Health Ministry employee, returns from a trip to Germany bringing some sex toys with which to spice up his marriage. His wife Ana is reluctant at first, but Nicanor insists on using the devices and talks to his friend Rodríguez, who speaks German, to have him translate the instruction booklet. However, the shortages and the need to survive in today’s Cuba will play one dirty trick after another on them…
High Tech
2005
NRRodrigo, a famous European artist, comes to Cuba to create a collage using photos of one hundred Cuban artists. Wanting the photos to reflect the anguish inherent in the creative process, he can think of nothing better than hiring the worker Nicanor O’Donnell to punch the one hundred artists in the face for a fee of five euros per head. Knowing that the collage will be exhibited all over the world, the artists line up to be beaten. Nicanor, who at first believes he has stumbled upon the deal of his life, is dismayed to discover that he must hit elderly people, women, artists he admires…
Exit
2011
NRRodrigo, a famous European artist, comes to Cuba to create a collage using photos of one hundred Cuban artists. Wanting the photos to reflect the anguish inherent in the creative process, he can think of nothing better than hiring the worker Nicanor O’Donnell to punch the one hundred artists in the face for a fee of five euros per head. Knowing that the collage will be exhibited all over the world, the artists line up to be beaten. Nicanor, who at first believes he has stumbled upon the deal of his life, is dismayed to discover that he must hit elderly people, women, artists he admires…
Exit
2011
7.0A biting satire about life in contemporary Cuba. Alicia, a young drama instructor, is sent to the small town of Maravillas de Noveras, which is itself an exaggerated, but very ingenious reflection of the real Cuba. Her adventures there are almost as surreal as the ones experienced by Lewis Carroll's character, reflecting patterns of indoctrination, coercion, absolutism, and many other everyday problems in Cuban society.
Alice in Wondertown
1991
