Vertical Love (Amor vertical) 26 years old

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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Vertical Love Cast

Name Character
Jorge Perugorría He was 32, now 59 years old
Silvia Águila She was 26, now 53 years old
Susana Pérez She was 45, now 72 years old

Vertical Love Crew

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Vertical Love poster
Vertical Love (26 years)

  • Release day: Tuesday, December 16, 1997
  • Runtime: 99 minutes