The adventures of Juan Quin Quin
| Movie | |
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| German title | The adventures of Juan Quin Quin |
| Original title | Las aventuras de Juan Quinquin |
| Country of production | Cuba |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julio García Espinosa |
| script | Julio García Espinosa |
| production | Humberto Hernández |
| music |
Leo Brouwer , Luis Gómez , Manuel Castillo |
| camera | Jorge Haydú |
| occupation | |
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The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin is a Cuban feature film. The film is based on the novel Juan Quinquin en Pueblo Moche by Samuel Feijóo . He was u. a. In 1968 he was awarded the Certificate of Honor at the II Ibero-American Meeting in Barcelona and in 1969 at the II International Film Festival in Phnom Penh in 1969 with the Golden Apsara. The film was dubbed by DEFA . In the Federal Republic of Germany it had its premiere on September 14, 1970 on the second German television ( ZDF )
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Juan Quin Quin is an adventurer from a poor background. He hires out as a church servant and circus performer, appears as a bullfighter and works on a coffee plantation. Cheated out of his earnings by the plantation owner, he plays Jesus in a street theater . After the outbreak of the revolution, Juan and his friend Jachero joined Fidel Castro's revolutionary army . On a scout patrol, Jachero is killed by government soldiers. Juan remembers their common experiences and their common struggle.
Reviews
“Espinosa demystified the seriousness of the revolution and made it ridiculous, which the audience honored and certain officials resented. Like Alea and Alvarez, he also worked with pop elements of capitalist mass culture, breaking them, alienating them and thus proving that the distant use of the medium can stimulate the senses and bring about pleasure. "
“In The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin, the tradition of the Spanish picaresque has a powerful effect. The slapstick elements of crazy comedy are added and parodied clichés of the American Western with its raids and persecutions - one may remember here that the Soviet film also tries to depict the revolutionary events in this way. Eccentricity, association with comics, a happy tinkering mood of fairground attractions, a pinch of sex, a lot of crude, drastic satire, and this combined with a brutal realism in the description of the conditions in pre-revolutionary Cuba, with a violent dynamic of revolutionary vigor. In bold and spirited handling of very heterogeneous means of expression, a happy synthesis of international aspirations and a naive, haunting folklore has succeeded, original and very, very Latin American. "
“The story of Juan Quin Quins, the peasant who goes from minister to revolutionary and looks like a mixture of Till Eulenspiegel and Robin Hood, skilfully oscillates between picaresque bits and a call to rebellion. Magnificent actors, successful quotes from half a dozen film genres, real, understandable humor and the film's speed, which excludes all boredom, make it worth every recommendation (from 14 years of age). "
Web links
- The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Aventuras de Juan Quin Quin (Película) in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)