Vertical Love
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The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love
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Cast
10 people
Jorge Perugorría
Ernesto Navarro Aces
Known for
Strawberry and Chocolate
Che: Part One
Silvia Águila
Estela Diaz Iglesias
Known for
Behavior
Susana Pérez
Lucia
Also in
Living Dangerously
Night of the Innocents
Osvaldo Doimeadiós
Sgt Garrido
Known for
A Translator
Manuel Porto
Faustino
Also in
Four Seasons in Havana
Esteban
Aramís Delgado
Tio Carlos
Known for
Behavior
Katia Caso
Monja
Also in
The OA
One Night
Paula Ali
Ernesto's Mother
Known for
Viva
Ileana Wilson
Gertrudis
Known for
The Grandmother
4L
Adriana Sánchez Estupiñan
Mary, The Siames
No other roles listed
Arturo Sotto Díaz Director
First release December 16, 1997 · Produced in Cuba · Original title Amor vertical
Production
Cuba
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Amor vertical
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Canada · December 16, 1997
Limited theatrical
Cuba · December 16, 1997
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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