"Director: Humberto Solas"

• Lucia | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £10.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Made in Cuba Lucia tells three stories of three periods of Cuban history from the vantage point of three women each called Lucia. Directed by the world famous Humberto Solas (Manuela Simparele) this tri-partite feature melds Cuban revolutionary fervour with feminist and social politics catapulting Solas into the international spotlight. Focussing on women from different classes - aristocracy the bourgeoisie and peasantry - with each participating in the struggle for Cuba's liberation this political allegory is segmented into three episodes with each set in seminal historical periods during Cuba's beleaguered history - the independence war against Spain the Machado dictatorship and post-Revolution. As each woman confronts the specific historical dilemmas - personal liberation in the face of class and sex discrimination and the decolonisation and reformation of Cuba - their stories provide an accurate and illuminating historical survey of an emergent national consciousness leading up to and following the Revolution. With a unique and stunning documentary style that insists on showing rather than telling the filmmaking itself bears testament to the struggle detaching itself from imposed styles of Western filmmaking to become a pioneering piece of Latin American cinema. It is easy to see why critics site Lucia as a landmark in Cuban cinema as well as the most important film in the nascent feminist cinema of the period.

• 50 Years Of The Cuban Revolution | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Modern Cuban cinema - borne out of a revolution that took place 50 years ago - is celebrating its golden jubilee this year. To mark the occasion Mr. Bongo Films is releasing a box set of landmark films from this iconic and turbulent nation. Cuban cinema is vibrant and exciting and yet not as widely known as films from other countries - but all that is set to change with the release of 50 Years Of The Cuban Revolution a stunning box set featuring four outstanding films including the never before released on DVD Lucia along with I Am Cuba Memories Of Underdevelopment and Strawberry & Chocolate. There will also be a run of Cuban films at the Barbican commencing on 11 July 2009 full listing below. Shocking moving and above all groundbreaking these four films are the work of esteemed directors Humberto Solas Tom''s Guti''rrez Alea Juan Carlos Tabio and Mikhail Kalatzov and tell outsiders what it means to be Cuban in the past present and future.

• The Viva Cuba Collection | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £29.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (0.23%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Beloved A Successful Man Cecilia Che Guevara as You have Never Seen Him Before The Death of a Bureaucrat The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin The Twelve Chairs

• A Succesful Man | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Cuba's history before the Revolution is chronicled through the story of two brothers one a revolutionary man of action the other an unscrupulous politician trying to steer a treacherous middle path between opposing political ideas.

• Beloved | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £14.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (0.47%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This important (New York Times) classic from the director of Luc''-a is set in 1914 Havana. Privileged but unhappily married Amada falls in love with her cousin Marcial a young man with revolutionary designs. Will she follow her passion and escape her unfaithful husband?

• Cecilia | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £14.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (0.47%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Cecilia: Cecilia Valdes