Havana was the playground of the West after WWII: Booze, drugs, casinos, high society and lowlifes...
Empire of Havana is a drama series that is intended as a limited-run series, telling the story of a specific place in a specific period: that place is Havana, Cuba, and that time is the decades after World War II when Havana was the playground of the West, rife with booze, drugs, casinos, high society, and lowlifes. In many ways, it was a holdover and the last gasp of an era that has become part of our modern mythology: the 1930s, the time of gangsters, names we all recognize — Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, and most importantly for our story, Meyer Lansky, the man dubbed “The Mob’s Financier.
Based on the book by Enrique Cirules “El Imperio de la Habana"