DDR KINO Filme aus Kuba

When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides her jewels in one of the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death, her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the jewels he believes rightfully belong to him.

Codeword: Prelude. Daniela - a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US - believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is in progress. Under the command of a US officer.

Though lesser known than Leni Riefenstahl's OLYMPIA or Kon Ichikawa's TOKYO OLYMPIAD, Santiago Alvarez's tribute to Cuba's sporting triumphs is no less breathtaking. A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro's Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle: "This is the story of a ship and of a sports delegation whom the ENEMY tried to stop from participating in the Tenth Central American and Caribbean Games." Alvarez's bristling montage may be put to didactic ends but there's a significant remainder of joy in his celebration of work. Rhetoric is inseparable from rhythm as Alvarez remains ever attentive to the specific manifestations of the body politic.

The metamorphoses of Juan Quin Quin, in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan.

Zeichnet das Leben dreier kubanischer Frauen nach, die alle Lucía heißen. Die Episoden spielen jeweils in drei verschiedenen historischen Epochen: während des Kampfes gegen die spanischen Kolonialherren, in den 1930ern und in den 1960er Jahren.

Based on actual events that occurred in 1936 in Pinar Del Río, a province in Cuba; it tells the story of Antoñica Izquierdo, a peasant who attributed healing powers through water.

A reconstruction, in the style of Socialist Realism, of an actual case from 1969 in which 4 men were accused of sabotaging economic planning and bringing about 8 deaths and much material loss, by starting a forest fire.

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

the story of a young man named totally devoted to the Revolution. When he is diagnosed with a cerebral aneurism, he takes stock of his life as a revolutionary and reconsiders his relationships with his family and friends

An epic, revolutionary retelling of the events leading up to an infamous massacre of striking miners in Chile in 1907.

In the early years of the Cuban revolution, a young Havana student volunteers to go to a poor rural region to teach peasants how to read and write; he's sent to the Ciénega de Zapata zone, where squads of anti-Castro guerrilla operate; he happens to teach the wife of a squad leader; trouble and confrontation ensues when government militia makes the little town its operations base.

Teresa is overwhelmed: with a husband, three young sons, a job as a crew leader in a textile factory, and volunteer commitments as cultural leader of her union. Her husband, Ramón, wants more of her attention; her feelings are mixed, wanting domestic peace, feeling responsibilities to the revolution, and wanting to control her own life beyond doing dirty dishes. They separate; he begins an affair. When he wants a reconciliation, she asks what his response would be if she'd had an affair too. "But men are different," is his reply. He's failed her test, and to hold on to independence and self-respect, she remains uncompromising and hard-edged.

While a train takes a woman to her destination, accompanied by her only daughter, she remembers the events that marked the life of her dead son and that led her to such a tragic outcome.

The rise and fall of a famous bounty hunter during the slavery years of 19th-century Cuba.

During the late 1800s in Cuba, runaway African slaves hide in mountainous settlements after overpowering their Spanish masters. Discord soon follows: traitors are in their midst, secretly working for the Spanish.

Aspects of the life of the revolutionary combatants Lidia Doce and Clodomira Acosta, guerrilla supplies and messengers in the Sierra Maestra, until their capture, torture and death.

Elpidio Valdés (ICAIC, 1979). It tells the birth of Elpidio, the death of his father and the beginnings of the War of Independence; as he knows María Silvia and how he becomes a scourge for the Spanish army, the counter-guerrilla and the American landowners. It develops almost totally in 1895.