By Associated Press Rebels allied with a young Fidel Castro burst into the street outside Havana's Government Palace as soldiers loyal to strongman Fulgencio Batista rain gunfire from above. Steps away, Ernest Hemingway and a young journalist friend dive for cover behind a parked car. An international film crew in recent weeks has been re-enacting this and other historic scenes in the streets of Havana for Papa, a biopic about the budding friendship between Hemingway and the reporter in the turbulent Cuba of the 1950s. Years in the making, producers say it is the first full-length feature film with a Hollywood director and actors to be shot in the country since the 1959 revolution.
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An international film crew in recent weeks has been filming in Cuba for new Hemingway biopic Papa
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Producers say it is the first full-length feature film with a Hollywood director and actors to be shot in the country since the 1959 revolution
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Hemingway lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1960 and wrote much of The Old Man and the Sea on the island - his masterpiece which one him the Nobel Prize for Literature
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The Godfather Part II's scenes in Cuba and 1990's Havana, were filmed in stand-in locations like the Dominican Republic
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Unprecedented permission to shoot in Hemingway's estate Finca Vigia - today considered such a shrine that tourists aren't even allowed inside
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Hemingway is a huge tourist draw for Cuba and the movie is likely to increase visitors to the island
The film crew was granted access to some of @placeholder's most iconic locales