Viva Cuba

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Movie
Original title Viva Cuba
Country of production Cuba , France
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2005
length 79 minutes
Rod
Director Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti ,
Iraida Malberti Cabrera
script Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti,
Manolito Rodríguez
production Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky
music Slim Pezin ,
Amaury Ramírez Malberti
camera Alejandro Pérez Gómez
cut Sylvie Landra ,
Angélica Salvador
occupation

Viva Cuba is a Cuban children's film directed by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti from 2005. The film was the first Cuban film to be awarded the Grand Prix Écrans Juniors at the Cannes International Film Festival . The “fairytale road movie” addresses local Cuban problems from the children's point of view and puts the camera at eye level with the protagonists Malú and Jorgito.

action

Malú and Jorgito are friends. However, their friendship is viewed critically by both other children and their parents. Malú is the daughter of a wealthy single mother who is critical of the Castro government. Jorgito's parents are proletarians and loyalists.

After the death of Malú's grandmother, her mother decides to emigrate with her to Florida . For this she needs the consent of Malú's father to allow his daughter to emigrate. So that she can stay in Havana , Malú secretly makes his way with Jorgito to see her father, who works as a lighthouse keeper on the other side of the island, in order to prevent him from signing the consent.

The two have many adventures on their journey. They escape the ticket inspector on the train, hitchhike and join a pioneer choir, perform at a concert that is broadcast live on television, are caught by a blind woman's watchdog while stealing food, and flee after Jorgito in the swamp at night Got a fever from a hospital. Through luck and cunning, they keep escaping the adults who are looking for them.

A cave explorer, in whose tent they stole biscuits, finally brings them, hidden in the sidecar of his motorcycle, through a police barrier to Malú's father. On the way, Malú and Jorgito make up. At the lighthouse where Malú's father works, there is an emotional reunion with the parents. But the situation quickly turns into a dispute. And Malú's father has already signed the declaration of consent.

criticism

The film-dienst judged that the “drawing of the bourgeois, religious and regime-critical conditions on the one hand, and proletarian-patriotic conditions on the other hand, sometimes becomes striking”, but “the film can walk the fine line between the message and the raised index finger thanks to the joy of playing of the two young actors claim". The film website kino.de wrote that the film was “not only interesting for younger viewers”. In addition to the "neo-realistic basic mood", which is enriched by "fantastic elements", the "real stroke of luck for the film" is the two young actors Jorgito Milo Avila and Malú Tarrau Broche, who inspire with their "refreshing game" would.

Awards

  • Premio Percosi Creative at the Giffoni Children's Film Festival in Italy 2005
  • Grand Prix Ecrans Junior at the Festival de Cannes 2005
  • Rascal 2006
  • Seahorses 2006
  • 1st prize at the Children's Film Festival in Würzburg 2006
  • Best film at the Children's Film Festival 2007 in Egypt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Helen Robertshaw: A Film Whose Shining Stars Are Children. L'Humanité , October 13, 2006, accessed March 16, 2015 .
  2. Miguel Pendás: Viva Cuba. San Francisco Film Festival, archived from the original on October 31, 2007 ; accessed on March 16, 2015 .
  3. Viva Cuba. film service , accessed March 16, 2015 .
  4. Viva Cuba. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media, accessed March 16, 2015 .