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Sons of Cuba DVD

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At the age of 28, Andrew Lang completed Sons of Cuba over a three-year production. The film received high praise for its even-handed depiction of contemporary Cuba. It also shows the uncertainty that followed in the wake of Castro’s retirement from public office; forming an indelible time capsule of 21st Century Cuban society. Although inspired by Latin American cinema, Lang’s use of the observational camera to show his subjects in their daily life deviated from the old-fashioned newsreel approach of his Cuban crew. His film approached his subjects as individuals and... collaborators, as displayed in the film’s interviews with the children, their family and the coach. This accounts for the special quality of Sons of Cuba. Despite being entirely in Spanish, the film remains an outsider’s view of Cuba, attentive to the universal nature of life in a country that has often suffered on account of large-scale misperception and ignorance. [show more]

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Released
20 July 2011
Directors
Actors
Format
DVD 
Publisher
Mr Bongo 
Classification
Runtime
89 minutes 
Features
PAL 
Barcode
0711969121094 
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Andrew Lang directs this documentary following an eight-month period in the lives of three pupils at the Havana Boxing Academy. The three 10-year-old boys are training for the most important event of their lives: Cuba's National Boxing Championship for Under-12s. But crisis strikes as the season gets underway when the country's iconic long-time leader, Fidel Castro, is suddenly taken ill. With all of Cuba's Olympic boxing champions defecting to the USA, the boys must quickly adapt to a changing world.

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