Vitali MANSKY Виталий МАНСКИЙ Vitali MANSKI   Russia, 2011, 99 mn  Colour, documentary

Patria o muerte / Motherland or Death ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Родина или смерть    Patria o muerte  Rodina ili smert

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Plot synopsis

What do we imagine when we hear Cuba? Especially someone who has never been on this island state in the Caribbean. Most likely, a cabriolet with a happy, blond young men in a coloured shirt and with a cocktail in his hands, amongst dancing mulatto, whose eyes reflect the boundless ocean. Of all this, only the ocean really exists, which separates the island from rest of the world. Perhaps there is no other country, where the difference between image and reality is as great as on Cuba. Over 50 years the state has lived with the slogan of the victorious revolution “Fatherland or Death”. For 50 years this slogan has posed an essential dilemma for generations of Cubans. This film is about those, who were born before the revolution and now approach the end of their lives: when it emerges that between “fatherland” and “death” stands an equal sign.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Vitalii Manskii : Patria o muerte (Rodina ili smert'; 2011), Erin ALPERT, kinokultura.com, 2012

Vitalii Manskii : Patria o muerte (Rodina ili smert’, 2011), John RILEY, kinokultura.com, 2012

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World, Prague (Czech Republic), 2013

- Krakow Film Festival, Krakow (Poland), 2012

- Miami International Film Festival : MIFF, Miami (USA), 2012

- Festival internazionale del Film di Roma, Rome (Italy), 2011

- Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival : IDFA, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2011

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2011

- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2011

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011

- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2011

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