Year			2000
Genre			Drama
Length			2:05
Director			Julian Schnabel
Writer			Reynaldo Arenas
Company			Fine Line Features
Starring			Javier Bardem Olivier Martinez Andrea Di Stefano Johnny Depp Sean Penn Michael Wincott Show more... Javier Bardem Olivier Martinez Andrea Di Stefano Johnny Depp Sean Penn Michael Wincott Olatz Lopez Garmendia Vito Maria Schnabel Najwa Nimri Hector Babenco Jerzy Skolimowski Sebastian Silva Robert Downey Jr.

Before Night Falls spans the whole of Arenas' life, from his rural childhood and his early embrace of the Revolution to the persecution he would later experience as a writer and homosexual in Castro's Cuba; from his departure from Cuba in the Mariel Harbor exodus of 1980 to his exile and death in the United States. It is a portrait of a man whose search for freedom - artistic, political, sexual - defied poverty, censorship, persecution, exile and death.