Cuba '58

Nov 2, 1962

1h 18m

★ 0.0

Overview

Three stories reconstructing the start of the triumphant Cuban revolution which deposed Batista.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

ICAIC

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Cast

(segment "Un día de trabajo")

Luis Alberto Ramírez

(segment "Un día de trabajo")

René de la Cruz

(segment "Los Novios")

Sergio Corrieri

(segment "Los Novios")

Ángel Espasande

(segment "Año Nuevo")

Raúl Xiqués

(segment "Año Nuevo")

Adolfo Llauradó

(segment "Año Nuevo")

José Antonio Rodríguez

(segment "Un día de trabajo")

Sergio Pena

(segment "Un día de trabajo")

Ricardo Lima

(segment "Un día de trabajo")

Luis Rielo

(segment "Un día de trabajo")

Pedro Pablo Astorga

(segment "Un día de trabajo")

Rafael Sosa

Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.

6.4

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

Feb 27, 2004

In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter, Javier, who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she secretly learns to dance with Javier, she learns the meanings of love, sensuality and independence.

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4.8

The Man from Maisinicu

Jan 2, 1973

1964, in the Escambray mountains: the area is infested with counter- revolutionary bands which are trying to spread terror among the population and re-establish contact with the US, CIA. The murder of a man led to a reprisal to wipe out the bandits.

7.4

The Motorcycle Diaries

Feb 6, 2004

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

6.0

Topaz

Dec 17, 1969

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

6.9

Viva Cuba

Apr 20, 2005

The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),

6.8

Che: Part One

Sep 5, 2008

Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.

4.7

Fidel

Jan 27, 2002

Centered on the six years before the fall of Batista's dictatorship and the subsequent 40 years of the Cuban Revolution.

6.0

Jíbaro

Jan 1, 1985

The first years of the Cuban Revolution characterized by social transformations and class struggles.

6.8

Living Dangerously

Jul 24, 1987

In 1950s Havana, a romance blooms between two young revolutionaries whose clandestine printing press publishes pamphlets meant to stir up rebellion against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. As their popularity grows, so, too, does their revolutionary zeal and their desire to mobilize other urban guerilla units.

6.8

Everybody Leaves

Apr 25, 2015

In Cienfuegos in the 1980s, a poetic young girl tries to make sense of her parents' volatile separation while keenly observing the reality of Cuba's dilemmas.

0.0

Yankee Comandante

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Two people rose to the rank of comandante during the Cuban Revolution. One was Che Guevara. The other was a man from Ohio.

4.5

Guaguasi

Nov 4, 1983

A story about a simple man from the mountains, Guaguasi, who falls in love with a beautiful chorus girl, Marina, during the Cuban Revolution. Guaguasi joins the rebels and arrives in Havana at the end of Batista's dictatorship, and, in the midst of political turmoil, is swept off his feet by the mesmerising Marina. The story celebrates the vitality and lunacy of the Revolution period with surrealism, humor and sensuality and is a compassionate metaphor about the human condition.

7.0

The Survivors

Jan 6, 1979

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of political order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

0.0

City in Red

Apr 2, 2009

A 2009 Cuban drama by Rebeca Chávez taking place in Santiago de Cuba at the beginning of revolution. In the late 1950s, the city of Santiago de Cuba was afire, the site of some of the fiercest resistance to the murderous dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The film's narrative unfolds over 24 hours in the lives of several youthful members of the underground as they confront their own uncertainty about the morality of armed struggle and the necessity of severing bonds that had seemed unbreakable.

4.8

Fidel

Apr 22, 2016

Cuba, as we knew it, is dying. The US Embassy has just opened in Cuba, and the Cuban in the USA after 54 years. Cubans are craving to be connected to the Internet, buy at Zara, eat at Burger King and have Apple gadgets Nevertheless, Fidel, the leader of the Revolution, is alone and hiding. He is, like Cuba, in decline.

6.2

Stories of the Revolution

Dec 30, 1960

A film about the Cuban Revolution told from three different perspectives.