Director: Hubert Sauper
Austria, France / 2020 / 108´
An immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial “utopian” Cuba and its resilient people a century after the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine in Havana, the event that ushered in the era of the American Empire alongside a modern form of world conquest: cinema itself.
Screenplay: Hubert Sauper
Producer: Martin Marquet, Daniel Marquet, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Paolo Calamita
Cinematographer: Hubert Sauper
Music: Zsuzsanna Varkonyi, Maximilian ‘Twig’ Turnbull
Editing: Yves Deschamps, Hubert Sauper
Cast: Oona Castilla Chaplin, Clarita Sanchez, Leonelis Arango Salas, Annielys Pelladito Zaldivar, Yorlenis David de la Cruz Leyva
Russian premiere