Enrique Pineda Barnet

Enrique Pineda Barnet was born in Havana on 28 October 1933. As a child he already acted in vernacular theatre, then worked in radio and journalism and in 1953 received the Hernández Catá national prize for a short story. A co-founder of the cultural society Nuestro Tiempo, he was among the first volunteer teachers of the Sierra Maestra, joined the Cuban film institute in the early sixties and co-wrote Soy Cuba, which Mikhail Kalatozov directed. He made Giselle, Mella and Verde verde, taught in many countries and died in Havana on 12 January 2021.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe Beauty of the AlhambraLa bella del AlhambraEnrique Pineda Barnet · 1989Cinema