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(7 May 2014) An international film crew in recent weeks has been re-enacting historic scenes in the streets of Havana for "Papa," a biopic about the budding friendship between American writer Ernest Hemingway and a reporter in the turbulent, pre-revolution 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. Due to decades of ill will between the two countries and Washington's 52-year-old embargo, other movies ostensibly set here, such as "The Godfather Part II" or 1990's "Havana," were filmed in stand-in locations like the Dominican Republic. "It was an absolute passion to actually make it in Cuba where everything that is in the script happened, where the finca (farm) is where (Hemingway) lived, where his boat was, all the spots from the Morro castle to Cojimar where he fished," director Bob Yari said. "It's all here, so trying to duplicate it somewhere else was not very appealing." Shooting began in March and wrapped over the weekend on the joint Canadian-Cuban-American production, with the island's governmental film institute known as ICAIC providing location support, period costumes and local actors. "Papa" came to Cuba under a U.S. Treasury Department license exempting it from most embargo restrictions. Filmmakers said there was a cap on how much they could spend, but would not say how much or release overall budget figures. For licensing purposes the movie qualified as a documentary, since it depicts a firsthand account of real events that took place here. So it's unlikely that that just any Hollywood blockbuster will get the same permission in the future. Though the title derives from the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's nickname, the movie is based on an autobiographical script by Denne Bart Petitclerc, who was abandoned by his father as a young boy, fell in love with Hemingway's writing and later came to see him as a father figure. While working for the Miami Herald in the 1950s, Petitclerc penned a letter to Hemingway professing his admiration. He didn't intend to send it, but his girlfriend found it and dropped it in the mail. On a recent Saturday, a reading room at the University of Havana library stood in for the Herald newsroom. The scene retells the moment when Petitclerc _ known as "Ed" in the movie and played by Giovanni Ribisi ("Avatar," "Saving Private Ryan") _ fields a fateful phone call that at first he thinks is a prank by one of his pals. Before long, Ed is on a boat with his idol, and the two strike up a friendship that would last until Hemingway's 1961 suicide. On board of Pilar - like the boat that belonged to Hemingway was called- with a view of Havana city and the Morro castle behind, the crew filmed some of the scenes. They got access to other Havana's most iconic locales including the former Government Palace, which long ago was turned into a museum celebrating Castro's revolution. Adrian Sparks, a screen and theater veteran who has played Hemingway on stage since 2005, confessed to something of a spiritual connection to the writer and said it was a magical experience portraying him in the land he loved "To be here in Cuba to see this land that he loved it's almost like my body is allowing him to be here again, to be on board the Pilar over the Cuban seas that he loved so much, what an opportunity" he said adding, "What an opportunity for Americans (�) to be here and realize what an exquisitely beautiful country this is, what an exquisitely beautiful people this is." CLEARANCE DETAILS Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...