The Silly Age

The Silly Age

Actors:  Iván Carreira, Mercedes Sampietro, Susana Tejera, Susana Tejera, Carla Paneca Directors:  Pavel Giroud

The "edad de la peseta" or silly age is the term used in Cuba for the pre-adolescent period from the age of seven to the age of eleven. Set in 1958 in Havana, the year that culminates the Revolution, ten-year-old Samuel has just arrived in town with his recently divorced mother. They take up residence in the house of his eccentric grandmother Vi...