Manuel Octavio Gómez

Ustedes tienen la palabra

Manuel Octavio Gómez

Idalia Anreus, Mario Balmaseda

Rebuild, in the same place of events, a trial held in 1969 to four men, accused of sabotage for having caused the fire of a forest plan that caused the death of eight people and large material losses. At the same time, it analyzes retrospectively the circumstances that contributed to the occurrence of the crime.

El señor presidente

Manuel Octavio Gómez

Michel Auclair, Bruno Garcin

Adaptation of the famous novel, impassioned denunciation of the Guatemalan dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera.

Los días del agua

Manuel Octavio Gómez

Idalia Anreus, Raúl Pomares

This Cuban feature examines the circumstances arising out of a woman's claim to have seen the Virgin Mary and to have been healed by waters from a nearby stream. In an accelerating storm of cynical opportunism, her sincere beliefs are exploited by businessmen, politicians and military men. Rival groups compete to exploit the hysteria the vision causes, and the chaos culminates in a revolution. Striking imagery and skillful camerawork enhance this feature.

Gallego

Manuel Octavio Gómez

Sancho Gracia, Jorge Sanz

La primera carga al machete

Manuel Octavio Gómez

Idalia Anreus, Adolfo Llauradó

Cuban peasants wield machetes in a violent uprising against Spanish authorities in the late 19th century.

¡Patakín! quiere decir ¡fábula!

Manuel Octavio Gómez

Miguel Benavides, Assenech Rodriguez

Socialist musical comedy made in Cuba

Tulipa

Manuel Octavio Gómez

Idalia Anreus, Alicia Bustamante

Tulipa, an old strip-teaser from a traveling circus, is replaced by a younger, more wild woman. She must teach the job to her successor or cling to an act that she values as true art.

Historia de una batalla

Manuel Octavio Gómez

Within a year, illiteracy on Cuba was eliminated thanks to the literacy brigades: an army of 100,000 youth people who set out with chalk and blackboards under their arms. Historia de una batalla follows them during their activities. The film also shows how the Cuban people devoted themselves to the economic progress of the country, and how they resisted the invasion at the Bay of Pigs.