Amada - Young woman from Havana

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Movie
German title Amada - Young woman from Havana
Original title Amada
Country of production Cuba
Publishing year 1982
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Humberto Solás
script Humberto Solás,
Nelson Rodríguez
music Leo Brouwer
camera Livio Delgado
cut Nelson Rodríguez
occupation

Amada - Young woman from Havana (Original title: Amada ) is a Cuban film. It is based on the novel "The Sphinx" by Miguel de Carrión y Cárdenas . The film was dubbed by DEFA and premiered in the GDR on May 2, 1986.

action

In 1914 the landlord's daughter Amada lives with her husband Dionisio, her blind mother and a servant in an old villa. Dionisio is an unscrupulous politician who disrespects his wife and wants to separate from her after the next election in order to enter into a relationship with another woman, which Amada does not know. Amada dislikes her husband and loves her cousin Marcial. He loves her too, but locked up in her social conventions, Amada does not dare break out of the prison of her marriage and openly confess to Marcial. Amada's mother sells the property in order to maintain her standard of living. Dionisio finds love letters from Marcial to Amada. He abuses his wife. She escapes the house and looks for Marcial, but does not find him. In desperation, she kisses a sick child and becomes infected with it. She dies. Marcial also takes part in the funeral service. When he leaves the villa, a wretched crowd moves towards the villa. It is the tenants who have lost their livelihood by selling the land.

criticism

“A picture of bars runs through the entire film like a leitmotif: bars in front of the windows, bars to the street and the park, barriers as metaphors for internal and external constraints. Amada is committed to the moral and moral code of her class. She is well aware of the consequences of an outbreak and still longs for it, but remains unable to take the appropriate steps. [...] Eslinda Nuñez plays the Amada like a volcano that tames and punishes itself. "(Ralf Schenk in the program" Atelier und Bühne "on the Berlin radio on May 5, 1986)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masterpieces of Cuban Film. 1st edition Berlin, 2006