El Súper is a 1979 Spanish-language comedy-drama film directed by
Leon Ichaso and Orlando Jiménez Leal, based on a stage play by Iván
Acosta. The film is a look at life in the U.S. from the perspective of
frustrated Cuban exiles.Roberto and Aurelia are ten-year exiles from
Castro's Cuba, now residing in New York City with their 17-year-old
daughter Aurelita. Roberto has become the super of the building in
which he lives, with the troubles of his tenants and his overall
discontentment with his current living situation driving the plot of
the film. He and his wife have trouble understanding their daughter,
who smokes pot and likes to disco dance; this is further compounded by
the problems she gets into during the latter half of the film,
including a pregnancy scare with potentially multiple men.Roberto
spends the majority of the film conversing with other exiles, such as
Pancho, a fellow Cuban, and Cuco, an exile from Puerto Rico; he also
tries to find a way to move to Miami to escape from New York, as he
feels that, despite the escape from Cuba, that this was a waste of his
past ten years and seeks to live out the remainder of his life in
peace. After Roberto makes his wish come true by finding a factory job
in the area, he celebrates both his wife's birthday and the family's
moving out with a grand party; the ending of the film has Roberto
desperately laugh in the dim basement, playing further into the
isolation he's felt in the past decade.
Leon Ichaso and Orlando Jiménez Leal, based on a stage play by Iván
Acosta. The film is a look at life in the U.S. from the perspective of
frustrated Cuban exiles.Roberto and Aurelia are ten-year exiles from
Castro's Cuba, now residing in New York City with their 17-year-old
daughter Aurelita. Roberto has become the super of the building in
which he lives, with the troubles of his tenants and his overall
discontentment with his current living situation driving the plot of
the film. He and his wife have trouble understanding their daughter,
who smokes pot and likes to disco dance; this is further compounded by
the problems she gets into during the latter half of the film,
including a pregnancy scare with potentially multiple men.Roberto
spends the majority of the film conversing with other exiles, such as
Pancho, a fellow Cuban, and Cuco, an exile from Puerto Rico; he also
tries to find a way to move to Miami to escape from New York, as he
feels that, despite the escape from Cuba, that this was a waste of his
past ten years and seeks to live out the remainder of his life in
peace. After Roberto makes his wish come true by finding a factory job
in the area, he celebrates both his wife's birthday and the family's
moving out with a grand party; the ending of the film has Roberto
desperately laugh in the dim basement, playing further into the
isolation he's felt in the past decade.
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