Guantanamera (film)

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Movie
German title Guantanamera - A corpse on the move
Original title Guantanamera
Country of production Cuba , Spain , Germany
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1995
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Juan Carlos Tabío
script Eliseo Alberto
Tomás Guitérrez Alea
Juan Carlos Tabío
production Gerardo Herrero
music José Nieto
camera Hans Burmann
cut Carmen Frías
occupation

Guantanamera - A corpse on the road (Original title: Guantanamera ) is a satirical Cuban film from 1995 by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío . It was named after the song Guantanamera , which is also the title song of the film. It is Tomás Gutiérrez's last film before his death in 1996. The historical context is Cuba's special period in the 1990s.

action

Aunt Yolita dies in Guantánamo while she visits her niece, the university lecturer Gina, and at the same time meets her childhood sweetheart Cándido again. Gina's husband Adolfo works at a funeral home and is responsible for the transfer of corpses from their place of death to their home for burial. In addition, he is a loyal communist and an outspoken bureaucrat . A new regulation on the transport of corpses, which is supposed to save costs, provokes numerous breakdowns and other comical situations, which continuously complicate the success of the transport of Tanta Yolita's corpse - led by Adolfo. Cándido and the deceased's pretty niece Gina, who is unhappy in her marriage to Adolfo, are on the journey with them. On the way they meet the truck drivers Mariano and Ramón, whom they happen to see again at every stop. Mariano is a former student and admirer of Gina from the days when she was his lecturer. The meeting leads to numerous emotions and adventures, not least to satirically portrayed situations from everyday life in Cuba.

In the background images you can see - as if from a road movie perspective - the long-term consequences of communism and the weak economy under Fidel Castro : the black market is flourishing, vegetables are being grown or chickens are being kept on every possible square meter , there are foreign exchange shops selling exclusively goods for US Dollars are offered, and much does not happen without postings and invoices in meaningless paper form, which offers a constant incentive to bribe .

criticism

The cultural magazine Rolling Stone described the film as "a wonderful farce about the pitfalls of real socialism".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TG Alea and JC Tablo - Guantanamera , Rolling Stone , February 3 1996