Cecilia Valdés
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cecilia Valdés |
| Original title | Cecilia |
| Country of production | Cuba |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 156 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Humberto Solás |
| script | Humberto Solás, Nelson Rodríguez , Jorge Ramos , Norma Torrado |
| production | Humberto Hernández |
| music | Leo Brouwer |
| camera | Julio Valdés |
| cut | Nelson Rodríguez |
| occupation | |
Cecilia Valdés is a Cuban feature film produced in 1981 by Humberto Solás . The template is the novel "Cecilia Valdés or the Angel's Hill" by Cirilo Villaverde .
action
Cecilia Valdés, the daughter of a colored family who works for the tailor Uribe, lives in Cuba around 1830 . Because of her beauty and her exceptional fairness, her mother and grandmother want to encourage her to find a rich white man. At an evening party, Cecilia made the acquaintance of Leonardo Gamboa, the son of a wealthy plantation owner. José Dolores Pimento, a friend of Cecilia's employer Uribe, who is also in love with Cecilia, is preparing a riot. Uribe hesitates. To prove his love for Cecilia, Leonardo hides an injured colored revolutionary . Leonardo's mother forces her son to marry Amanda, a befitting white woman. It also shows the governor where the injured man is hiding, who is then arrested. Leonardo does not have the strength to oppose his mother and to distance himself from the cruel slavery of his family. The uprising breaks out during a traditional carnival festival . Uribe tries to kill the police chief, but fails because he does not shoot at the crucial moment and is arrested. José wants revenge for the revolutionary betrayed by Leonardo's mother. Cecilia gives him a dagger and asks him not to kill Leonardo but his mother. To avoid the police, José wears a carnival costume when he breaks into the church during the wedding and stabs Leonardo. Cecilia then falls from the church tower.
Reviews
"Cecilia is a film of great dramatic power and a perfect mastery of the means of expression."
“Dreams blossom in the manner of magical realism, visions of fear make you shiver and shudder, rituals and ceremonies are spread out like a colorful carpet. There are always subtle picture compositions, dynamic crowd scenes and skilful arrangements, an understanding of art and professional calculation. "
"Painterly in his optical arrangements, restrained in the coloring, lavish in the choice of his design means, which also include legends and myths, he repeatedly arrives at expressive, overwhelming picture sequences full of sensual power and passionate beauty, also naturalistic starkness and excessive pathetic - as namely in his vision the slaves rise up against their tormentors and are judged as the unfaithful lover at his wedding ceremony. This is great, uplifting Cuban cinema. "
Web links
- Cecilia Valdés in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Masterpieces of Cuban Film. 1st edition Berlin, 2006