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26/10/1964 Drama 2h 21m
78
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Overview

A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.

  1. Mikhail Kalatozov

    Director

  2. Enrique Pineda Barnet

    Writer

  3. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Sergio Corrieri

    Alberto

  2. Salvador Wood

  3. José Gallardo

    Pedro

  4. Raúl García

    Enrique

  5. Luz María Collazo

    Maria / Betty

  6. Jean Bouise

    Jim

  7. Alberto Morgan

    Ángel

  8. Fausto Mirabal

  9. Roberto García York

    American Activist

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-06-04
If you are ever going to watch a film that shows just how the seeds of revolution can germinate, then this is probably it. Using four separate scenarios, we follow the iniquities of a society that is crying out for change - but just not neccessarily coherently. It's that lack of cohesion that has hitherto allowed the Batista government to cling to power, but might we be about to see the joining up of those oppressed in both the countryside and the city? We start with "Pedro" (José Gallardo), a subsistence farmer walking through his fields praying for his sugar canes to grow tall and true so h...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Spanish

Budget
$600,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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