| The Project of the Century | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Carlos M. Quintela |
| Producer: | Hernán Musaluppi, Natacha Cervi, Pablo Chernov |
| Starring: | Mario Balmaseda, Mario Guerra |
| Cinematography: | Marcos Attila |
| Editing: | Yan Vega |
| Music: | Vicente Rojas |
| Studio: | Rizoma Films, Uranio Films LTD, Ventura Film, Raspberry & Cream |
| Distributor: | Hubert Bals Fund |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | Argentina, Cuba, Switzerland, Germany |
| Language: | Spanish |
The Project of the Century (Spanish; Castilian: La obra del siglo) is a 2015 film directed by Carlos M. Quintela.[1] The director's second feature film, it was screened at a number of international festivals, such as the Havana Film Festival,[2] the Miami International Film Festival,[3] and the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it won the prestigious Tiger Award.[4] [5]
"The Project of the Century" alludes to the Juragua Nuclear Power Plant, a Soviet-Cuban project abandoned in 1992 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The film, set in the workers’ town built next to the abandoned power plant, was shot in black-and-white. Quintela made use of archive footage from Cuban television.
The film was acquired by German sales company M-appeal.[6]
The film follows three generations of lonely Cuban men who struggle to co-exist under the same roof in a city once pledged to become the center of the Soviet nuclear project in the Caribbean.[7]