Cinema of Cuba

Cinema of Cuba
Cine Praga in Pinar del Rio, Cuba
No. of screens	313 (2009)[1]
• Per capita	3.0 per 100,000 (2009)[1]
Main distributors	Dist. Nac. ICAIC 100.0%[2]
Produced feature films (2009)[3]
Fictional	8
Number of admissions (2011)[4]
Total	2,230,200
Gross box office (2006)[4]
Total	CUP 2.45 million
National films	CUP 1.36 million (55.7%)

Cinema arrived in Cuba at the beginning of the 20th century. Before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, about 80 full-length films were produced in Cuba. Most of these films were melodramas. Following the revolution, Cuba entered what is considered the "Golden age" of Cuban cinema.^{[citation needed]}