Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel

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Movie
German title Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel
Original title Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel
Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel movie poster.jpg
Country of production Switzerland
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 1997
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Christian Frei
script Christian Frei
production Christian Frei
music Arturo Sandoval ,
Chucho Valdés
camera Peter Indergand
cut Christian Frei, Damaris Betancourt
occupation
  • Ricardo Martínez
  • Miriam Martínez

Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel is the first cinema documentary by the Swiss director Christian Frei from 1997 . The film portrays Miriam Martínez and her father, the Cuban revolutionary Ricardo Martínez. Daughter and father are torn between the desire to emigrate to the USA and the ideals of the Cuban Revolution . The film premiered in 1997 at the international documentary film festival Visions du Réel in Nyon (Switzerland).

content

Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel is a report on two individual fates and at the same time tells of the loss of utopias and the struggle of ideologies in Cuba . Miriam Martínez, like many of her compatriots, would like to emigrate to the USA. As the daughter of the Cuban revolutionary Ricardo Martínez, this is particularly difficult for her. Ricardo had given up his position as a radio journalist in the 1950s to join Fidel Castro 's rebels . Under the leadership of Che Guevara he founded the pirate radio station Radio Rebelde . This radio became an important information tool of the Cuban Revolution. The documentary Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel shows historical recordings from the time of Radio Rebelde and links the content to the present, to the time of Miriam, who gets information from Radio and TV Martí . Radio Martí broadcasts to Cuba as an arm of Voice of America . The film thus also deals with a piece of media history. According to the International Broadcasting Bureau, Radio Martí is the most successful radio station in world history, as the station achieved audience participation of over 80 percent just months after it was launched in 1985. The head of radio and TV Martí, the historian Rolando E. Bonachea, also speaks in the film. Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel shows the ambivalence of the feelings of father and daughter. Reality has turned the once committed fighter for the revolution into a disillusioned pensioner. At the end of the film, the daughter may have arrived in the land of her dreams, but she doesn't seem so happy. The farewell of the two was a farewell forever, because the daughter will not be able to return to Cuba.

Reviews

"The human representation of a political conflict makes Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel a masterful film that shows how much both sides belong to one and the same coin."

- Visions du Réel

“In his search for objectivity, Frei shows contradictions and paradoxes and avoids taking sides for one side or the other. (...) Frei does all of this with great care for the story-telling and the aesthetics (from the quality of the photography to the economical use of music), which underline the global claim of the film. "

- Norbert Creutz - Director's Portrait Swiss Films

"With the impressive example of a father-daughter relationship, the incurable disruption of today's Cuba can be felt."

- Christoph Egger - Neue Zürcher Zeitung

"The farewell is a focal point of a film that is rich in information as well as emotionally gripping moments, which confidently combines the individual story with highlights on a piece of Cuban-American media history."

- Basler Zeitung

Awards

literature

  • Norbert Creutz: Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel, in: Die Tektonik des Menschlichen, GEO Edition Documentary Films Christian Frei Collection, ed. Warner Home Video Switzerland 2007, 28-35 ( PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.artfilm.ch/extra/christian_frei-booklet.pdf Norbert Creutz: The War of the Waves, in: Die Tektonik des Menschlichen, GEO Edition Documentary Films Christian Frei Collection, ed. Warner Home Video Switzerland 2007, 35
  2. ↑ Description of the film in the catalog of the Vision du Réel festival ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1997 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visionsdureel.ch
  3. ↑ Original quote in English. Norbert Creutz: Director's Portrait Christian Frei, ed. V. SwissFilms May 2006 p. 1.4.
  4. ^ Film review in the NZZ 1997
  5. ^ Film review in the Basler Zeitung 1997