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Jiménez Leal went on to make documentary films such as The Other Cuba (1983) and Improper Conduct (1984) in collaboration with Néstor Almendros. Improper Conduct is a highly controversial film that deals with the treatment of gays in Cuba. The Other Cuba is a bitter denunciation of the Revolution told from the point of view of the exiled ...
Back in Cuba, Castro feared a US-backed coup; in 1959 his regime spent $120 million on Soviet, French, and Belgian weaponry and by early 1960 had doubled the size of Cuba's armed forces. [187] Fearing counter-revolutionary elements in the army, the government created a People's Militia to arm citizens favourable to the revolution, training at ...
Cuba Libre (Free Cuba) Jorge Luis Sánchez: Manuel Porto, Isabel Santos, Georgina Almanza: Historic drama: La cosa humana (The Human Thing) Gerardo Chijona: Héctor Medina: Comedy: La ciudad (The City) Tomás Piard: La emboscada (The Ambush) Alejandro Gil: Patricio Wood, Caleb Casas, Tomás Cao, Armando Miguel Gómez: Bellic drama: Buquenque ...
Vladimiro Roca Antúnez, the son of a prominent communist leader who grew to become a dissident and opposed Fidel Castro when few dared at the time, died on Sunday, members of the opposition and ...
Comandante is a political documentary film by American director Oliver Stone.In the film, Stone interviews Cuban leader Fidel Castro on a diverse range of topics. Stone and his film crew visited Castro in Cuba for three days in 2002, and the film was released in 2003, having its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival early that year.
Obama began his first full day in Havana in the symbolic heart of Cuba's Communist system, starting in Revolution Square, where for decades Raul Castro's brother, Fidel Castro, led million-strong ...
After that, the US trade embargo made Hollywood films less accessible to Cuba. To Cuban cinema, it was about time to explore something new from other countries and not rely on U.S. production. To keep Cuba's theaters going, the ICAIC imported a large number of movies from France, Italy, Japan and other countries, which created great diversity.
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