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The plot is situated in Cuba during the early '50s, before the cuban revolution. A prostitute gets in love with a boxer to whom she devotes her life. As the boxer progresses in his career, he gets money and women. The prostitute tries everything to keep him meanwhile her tortured soul sinks deeper and deeper.
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Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (Plácido) is accused of leading a conspiracy against the Spanish colonial government. Preoccupied by the development of Afro-Hispanic artist and craftsmen of the mid 19th century, Plácido was executed after living a short and controversial life.
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Techo de Vidrio es una controvertida película, que depués de permanecer archivada seis años, el ICAIC decidió estrenarla. Este filme, corre las cortinas de la construcción del Socialismo y la investigación que realiza una joven abogada acerca de un delito de malversación. Los culpables son buenos trabajadores y revolucionarios, pero uno de ellos, acostumbrado a beneficiarse de privilegios de su cargo, busca impunidad en el caso. La cinta retrata al hombre que ha hecho un uso ilegal de bienes del Estado en beneficio personal, con todas las implicaciones ideológicas del hecho en sí mismo.
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In 19th century Cuba, runaway African slaves known as 'Cimarrons' hiding in settlements in the eastern mountains. But discord among the Cimarrons is sown by a limited offer of freedom from the Spanish. Maluala is part of a trilogy of films about Cuba's slave uprisings made by Sergio Giral, the best known Afro-Cuban director.
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A historical epic, cast in the style of a realistic narrative with symbolic overtones, about runaway slaves and their hunters in the mid-nineteenth century, which weaves an analysis of the factional divisions between coffee and sugar interests, plantation owners and smallholders, around the drama of the Rancheador searching for the mythical rebel slave leader, Mother Manchora.
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Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The film contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life found in Suárez Romero's novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery throughout the Americas. It offers a critical analysis of the novel, showing how the author's social background led to his use of particular dramatic structures to convey his liberal, humanitarian viewpoint.
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Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The film contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life found in Suárez Romero's novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery throughout the Americas. It offers a critical analysis of the novel, showing how the author's social background led to his use of particular dramatic structures to convey his liberal, humanitarian viewpoint.
Writer
Basada en un hecho real. La acción se desarrolla en la Habana de 1931, durante la dictadura de Gerardo Machado. Rachel, joven corista francesa, es asesinada durante una orgía en que participaban personalidades de la burguesía y la política. La prensa sensacionalista se hace eco del hecho para desviar la atención del público de los graves problemas sociales que afectan al país. Los gobernadores por su parte ordenan silenciar el caso para proteger a los grandes personajes implicados.
