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After a 15-year stint in a United States prison, Francisco “Cisco” Castillo returns home to the Dominican Republic to find that life isn’t any easier in his old surroundings. Due to his criminal record, he can’t hold down a job, and his alcoholic mother favors her youngest son, a budding teenage criminal who is one stick-up away from jail, or worse. Reluctantly taking up back-alley street fighting to earn cash, Cisco forms an alliance with Nichi, a washed-up boxer from Italy who’s struggling with a gambling addiction. To better both of their financial situations, Nichi offers to train the naturally gifted Cisco in the boxing ring.
Co-directors Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas put a delicate touch to this hard-hitting boxing drama, rooting a double-sided story of redemption in the mean streets of the Dominican Republic—where the hint of paradise offered by the island always seems just out of reach.
SAMBÁ is a sports drama about the redemption, through the metaphor of life and boxing.
Original Release
06/29/2017
US Release
12/19/2017
Cast
Name | Character |
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Algenis Perez Soto | Francisco Castillo |
Oscar Carrasquillo | Cheve |
Jalsen Santana | Tom Guzman |
Miguel Sabino | José Matos |
Riccardo Bardellino | Propietario Restaurante |
Karina Valdez | Dari |
Dheni Paris | Nichi Valente's trainer |
Gerardo Mercedes | Suarez |
Ricardo Ariel Toribio | Leury |
Omar Augusto Luis | Pintu |
Directors
Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán
Writers
Ettore D'Alessandro, Carolina Encarnacion
Cast
Name | Character |
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Algenis Perez Soto | Francisco Castillo |
Oscar Carrasquillo | Cheve |
Jalsen Santana | Tom Guzman |
Miguel Sabino | José Matos |
Riccardo Bardellino | Propietario Restaurante |
Karina Valdez | Dari |
Dheni Paris | Nichi Valente's trainer |
Gerardo Mercedes | Suarez |
Ricardo Ariel Toribio | Leury |
Omar Augusto Luis | Pintu |
Joan Guzmán | Domingo Rodríguez's Trainer |
Eduardo de Pablo | Enrico Russo |
Omar de la Cruz | Prison boxer |
Félix Mangu Valera | Domingo Rodríguez |
Juan Carlos Hazim Sued | Flaco |
Franklin Núñez | Narrador de pelea |
Reynaldo Acevedo | Piñeda |
Héctor Sierra | Ariel |
Eddy Avila | Oficial de Migración de los EEUU |
Ettore D'Alessandro | Nichi Valente |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ettore D'Alessandro | Executive Producer |
Alessandro Buono | Executive Producer |
Carolina Encarnacion | Executive Producer |
Hector Javier Trombin | Executive Producer |
Yuneidys Lachapell Camilo | Producer |
Esteban Martin | Producer |