Nicolás Guillén Landrián fue uno de los más vanguardistas cineastas cubanos de los años 60 y 70. Sin embargo, su obra no fue justamente valorada y su figura relegada al ostracismo. En el año 2022, una parte de sus documentales comenzó a ser restaurada. Mientras se documenta ese proceso, su viuda Gretel Alfonso y el fotógrafo Livio Delgado rememoran diferentes pasajes de la vida de este importante documentalista.
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La película se desarrolla en un pueblito postergado, Villaserena. Un día llega Abelardo (Darío Grandinetti) e instala una radio precaria alimentada por un generador. Los cuatro parlantes estratégicamente ubicados empiezan a pregonar lo que el pueblo alguna vez calló llegando a convertir a Villaserena en un infierno, hasta que sus habitantes deciden acabar con la fuente de todos sus problemas. Celina (otrora esposa del hombre más rico del lugar) y Gastón (primer actor de la compañia de actores ambulantes) huyen del pueblo dejando abandonada a Celeste (hija de Celina) que es una hermosa joven encerrada entre cuatro paredes por su padre. Se forma un triángulo amoroso entre Celeste, Abelardo y José (joven campesino). La historia está narrada por Oscar, otro singular personaje de Villaserena que va mezclando su fantasía con la realidad.
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An approach to a living myth of dance, Alicia Alonso, from the viewpoint of her passion, tenacity and devotion to art. It includes fragments of the ballet Giselle, choreographed by her, based on the original by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, and of La Diva, choreographed by Alberto Méndez.
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Cheo visits his friend, Manolo, who he hasn't seen for many years. They drink to celebrate their reunion and fondly recall the times they spent together in years past. As they reminisce, the two friends confront the revolution, evaluate their lives, and bare their souls.
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A left-wing intellectual, faced with the imminence of his arrest during the coup d'état against President Joao Goulart, lives anguished moments of definition. To the collapse of his small universe is added a conjugal confrontation that unmasks him mercilessly.
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The world of a young psychiatrist is shattered when she finds out that her husband is having an affair with one of her patients.
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In 1914, during World Ward I, Amada, a bourgeois wife, falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a young idealist who is fighting against the Cuban regime in power.
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Pedro, a young black man born into a family of Haitians who emigrated to Cuba, returns to his town and notes the changes that the new times have brought.
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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.
