Feature film
The Man from Maisinicu
El hombre de Maisinicú
Manuel Pérez · 1973
Synopsis
Early 1964, in the Escambray mountains. Alberto Delgado y Delgado has been sent to run the Maisinicú cooperative farm, amid the fighting between the peasants and counter-revolutionary groups linked to the CIA. When his body is found in a clearing, an investigation reconstructs in flashbacks his last fourteen months, during which this Cuban agent had infiltrated one of these armed bands.
Context
The film dramatises, through Alberto Delgado, the revolutionary government's struggle against the armed opposition of the sixties. Produced by Santiago Llapur, in black and white, it brings together Sergio Corrieri and Reinaldo Miravalles, and builds its narrative backwards, starting from the investigation. The University of North Carolina classes it among films on the armed opposition of the sixties, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne among its subtitled prints.
Who it is for
An investigative and espionage film in Spanish, of about two hours; it helps to know what the Escambray war was.
Prizes and reception
Special mention at the eighth Moscow International Film Festival, in 1973.
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