Jack Weil, played by Robert Redford, feels at home in this corrupt city
He's a professional gambler looking for the game of his life
He played in every Elks Club and Moose Hall in America
He remembers every hand of every game and now he wants a shot, only one shot in Havana
But while he is on the verge of winning everything Bobby Duran (Lena Olin) has lost all she ever knew
Olin plays the wife of a Cuban revolutionary, Raul Julia
Bobby has nothing to lose or to protect
And in a super-natural and strange way Jack reaches her
And so, as Cuba crumbles Jack is drawn in Bobby's world of the revolutionaries and, in one crucial moment he sees himself he must choose between the greatest card game of his life and the woman he loves
There's a kind of exotic combination between Redford and Olin's characters
Between Redford's very American, blond, golden look and Olin's dark, intense Swedish expression
Sydney Pollack's "Havana" is a love story that takes place during the week of Christmas, 1958 which was the last week Batista was in power before Castro came in
It was the last week of this kind of a circus that Havana was
An attractive city full of gambling, of burlesque, of every kind of hedonistic pleasure possible
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