Release Date

22 Jan, 2000

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years - Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band! Felipe, his Cuban friend, sets him straight: " You don't have the Latino look, muchacho! Today, if your are not Cubano or Columbiano, you are out!". Undaunted, Rémi deliberately takes on the identity, accent and complexion of an unemployed alien in a city where most foreigners will do almost anything to become French. Barreto, 75, the legendary Cuban composer, who is about to close down the once famous Casa Cubana, offers Rémi a job giving dance lessons to the locals. It is here that Rémi falls in love with Nathalie. Her family's "secrets and lies" reveal parental links to Barreto. Do these links explain why this shy beauty ought to be a bomb on the dance floor?

Original Title

Salsa

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Actors

Vincent Lecœur

Christianne Gout

Catherine Samie

Michel Aumont

Roland Blanche

Alexis Valdés

Elisa Maillot

Aurora Basnuevo

Estéban Socrates Cobas Puente

Christiane Cohendy

Naím Thomas

Olivier Bénard

Sylvain Corthay

Isabelle Coutançais

Michel Debrane

Annabelle Février

Jean-Luc Horvais

Marie-Christine Leclaire

Elisabeth Margoni

Jehan Pagès

Rébecca Régina

Crew

Joyce Buñuel

Nicole Saunier

Daniel Harroch

Nora Habib

Peter Hewitt

Géraldine Polveroni

Joyce Buñuel

Aïssa Djabri

Yuri Buenaventura

Guillermo Navarro

Jean-Claude Carrière

Stéphane Sorlat

Sierra Maestra

Farid Lahouassa