LA BELLA DEL ALHAMBRA (2nd American Film Festival, 1993)

Havana, 1920. Young Rachel works as a backup singer in a miserable circus tent. Faced with this, her only alternative is prostitution. But she dreams of something else: to be the lover of a single man, but above all, to become a truly recognized artist. The "Alhambra" theater, a special and strange place that only men are allowed to enter, becomes the destination of her dreams. Torn between love and fame, she transforms herself into "The Beauty of the Alhambra". A classic of Cuban cinema, whose literary model is the novel "Canción de Rachel" by Miguel Barnet. (cubafilm.com)