Tropicanita (1998)
Directed by Daniel Díaz Torres
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Synopsis by Bhob Stewart
Daniel Diaz Torres directed this Cuban-Spanish-German comedy, winner of the jury award at the Havana Film Festival. Following a summer costume party, German documentary filmmaker Herman Pangloss (Peter Lohmeyer) is found dead, and cop Lorenzo Columbie (Vladimir Cruz) investigates, getting different stories about Pangloss from everyone he interviews. Whom should he believe? Shown at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival (Made in Spanish '98) and the 1998 Toronto Film Festival.