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...inner workings by transcribing the political trials held in the regime of Gerardo Machado. In 1933 he seized control of the army and the country in a bloodless -but genuine-"sergeants' revolution." But he soon learned the lavish ways of Latin dictators: gambling and prostitution flourished in Havana while government officials built monumental bank accounts from sugar deals with the U.S. In an ill-considered play for popularity, Batista released hundreds of political prisoners in 1955; one of them, Fidel Castro, put together the Communist revolution that ousted him. He settled in exile with his fortune and his family...
...Johnson). He is by far the most interesting character in the movie. Purvis is obsessed with killing all of the biggest bank robbers who are responsible for killing a G-man friend of his in a jail break. This G-man had once given Purvis a box of expensive Havana cigars. Purvis phallically puffs on one of the Havanas at the shoot-out killings of each of his sworn enemies. In Sergant Friday-monotone, he relates in voice-over the location and date of each shooting. He personally (with hundreds of cops standing behind him) shoots his victims with...
...ragged band of 86 freedom fighters in an attack on a fortress in dictator Fulgencio Batista's Cuba. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara lost the battle for the Moncada garrison, and both were imprisoned for some time. Six years later, they led their small guerrilla army into Havana and began to implement a socialist revolution...
Cuba today bears little resemblance to the country that rolled out the welcome mat for American imperialism before the revolution. No longer do the rich American businessmen sit smoking cigars in the Havana nightclubs and divide up Cuban production. No longer are Cuban peasants illiterate peons whose only reason for existence is American sugar interests...
...anxious, frightened face of a black woman staring out into the audience. The scene has extraordinary energy, with its suggestions of abrupt but casual violence, al ways threatening but quickly absorbed. The very next scene balances and complements it: a long interlude of fare wells at the Havana airport, families breaking up, hurrying to leave the country for Miami. Here is the first introduction of Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), who remains in Cuba by choice while his wife and parents fly to America. His farewell is unique among the oth rs all around him for its detachment. Watching his wife...