Rio Negro = Black River

Cuba, 1977

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The drama begins on the morning of 17 April 1961, as news of the Bay of Pigs invasion reaches the Black River area of the Escambray Mountains in central Cuba. Tirso Fabre, a militiaman and member of the Black River co-operative farm, and Chano Carrillo, a counterrevolutionary hiding behind his front as a Castro sympathizer, receive the news in different ways, in line with their antagonistic ideological positions. The film traces a long-running personal feud between the two men of which the roots go back to the pre-revolutionary years, in a story told in flashback and flashforward. Cast includes Sergio Corrieri and Nelson Villagra. In Spanish with English subtitles.

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Credits

director

Manuel Perez

producer

Santiago Llapur

production company

ICAIC

Duration

02:15:00:00

Production places
Cuba
Production dates
1977

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

312622

Language

Spanish

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan

Wikidata

Q7386366

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