Spanish-Cuban film, directed by Humberto Solás, with the participation of Daisy Granados, Imanol Arias, Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Gerardo Riverón, Miguel Benavides and Antonia Valdés, being shown at the Sala Iberia, Casa de América (Plaza Cibeles, s/n, Madrid) this evening at 19:00 hrs, within their film cycle Migration in cinema (VI) National identity. Free entry, limited seating.
The film depicts Havana in the first half of the nineteenth century, the film was inspired by Cirilo Villaverde’s classic novel about the loves of a beautiful mestiza whose ambition it is to break into the world of the white aristocracy and a young nihilistic and contrary creole man. Tortuous passion will translate the splendour, the penury and the chaos of a society still engaging in slavery, condemned to disappear in the vortex of cultural and racial syncretism that shape the birth of a nation through its fight for independence.
