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The Padilla Affair (2022)

ALL 09/02/2022 (es) Documentary 78 Min
  • Release
    09/02/2022
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    El caso Padilla
  • Original language
    es
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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"Neither a martyr nor a traitor"

Overview

Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of complicity at many of his colleagues present at the event, among them, his wife. A month previously, his arrest under the accusation of endangering the security of the Cuban state had mobilised prominent intellectuals all over the world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro calling for the release of the poet, whose only sin had been to dissent through his poetic work. The writer's mea culpa, the recording of which is shown for the first time to the public, marks the narrative line of a story including the testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards and Fidel Castro.

  1. Pavel Giroud

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Pavel Giroud

    Editor

  4. Lía Rodríguez

    Producer



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  1. Heberto Padilla

    Self (archive footage)

  2. Fidel Castro

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Gabriel García Márquez

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Julio Cortázar

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Mario Vargas Llosa

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Jean-Paul Sartre

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Belkis Cuza Malé

    Self (archive footage)

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Casts : 7 , Crews : 6

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The Padilla Affair (2022) 78 Min

ALL 09/02/2022 (es)
Documentary
  • Release 09/02/2022
  • Production
  • Original title El caso Padilla
  • es
  • Revenue0.00

"Neither a martyr nor a traitor"

Overview

Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of complicity at many of his colleagues present at the event, among them, his wife. A month previously, his arrest under the accusation of endangering the security of the Cuban state had mobilised prominent intellectuals all over the world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro calling for the release of the poet, whose only sin had been to dissent through his poetic work. The writer's mea culpa, the recording of which is shown for the first time to the public, marks the narrative line of a story including the testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards and Fidel Castro.

  1. Pavel Giroud

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Pavel Giroud

    Editor

  4. Lía Rodríguez

    Producer



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