Explores the sensuous rhythms and movements of the dance style known as the rumba, as demonstrated by the celebrated Havana rumbero Papá Montero. Blending vintage documentary footage with meticulously staged recreations, the dancer's tragic assassination at Carnival is connected with the passing of a cultural era in Cuban life.
Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organize a slave revolt. The envoys are Debuisson, the grandson of a Jamaican rum manufacturer, who knows the island very well, his old friend Sasportas, and the sailor Galloudec. After having established contact with the fragmented rebel groups, they receive the surprising news of Napoleon′s takeover in France. Whereas Debuisson, who by now has gotten used to his role as a rich heir, wants to wait for new instructions from home, his companions are determined to press ahead with the revolt. When a slave kills a British guard, the situation escalates.
젊은 부르주아 세르지오의 이야기. 혁명이 몰아 닥치고 가족들이 쿠바를 떠나는 상황에서 그는 쿠바 안에 남기로 결심한다. 혼자가 된 세르지오는 삶의 이유를 찾기 위해 자신의 어린 시절, 가족, 연인 그리고 불행들과 같은 과거를 기록하기 시작한다. 혁명은 점점 그에게 도전으로 다가선다. 모든 것은 '10월 위기'동안에 끝나버린다. 세르지오는 그가 받은 모든 교육과 가치가 산산이 부서지는 것을 발견하는데...
A Haitian son returns from fifteen years in Cuba to find his home village afflicted with the double plague of drought and strife. A Cuban production from the director of Memories of Underdevelopment. In Spanish.
(segment "Un día de trabajo")
Three stories reconstructing the start of the triumphant Cuban revolution which deposed Batista.
