Che Guevara's legacy meets TikTok hopes — Cuba at 50 hits different.
The Cuban Revolution turns fifty years old. Fifty years of history, myths and challenges of a country that has influenced politics and culture around the world, becoming for many the symbol of the revolt against capitalism.A country full of contradictions, but which has always exerted a great fascination for its strong political and cultural identity. "The Gold of Cuba" wants to go deep and reconstruct the most exciting and the mostdramatic moments in the history of the Caribbean island. But it also wants to analyze the present through the testimonies collected from many young people who tell their hopes, opinions, expectations and dreams, trying to imagine the future that awaits this small country with a great history.
Direction
Montaldo's 74-minute sprint through fifty years of chaos.
Production
Rare access to young Cubans speaking their unfiltered truth.
Director
Giuliano Montaldo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Montaldo was 80 when he shot this, having survived Italian neorealism, spaghetti westerns, and three decades of Berlusconi.
Released in 2009, the film captures Cuba right before Obama's 2014 thaw and subsequent freeze — a political time capsule already obsolete.
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