Lucia, a journey into the past through Cuban cinema

On this occasion, the masterpiece is presented in a restored version, to bring the local audience closer to a plot covering three different moments in the past of the largest of the Antilles, told through the experiences of three women of the same name.

Starring Raquel Revuelta, Eduardo Mori, Iceland Nunez, Ramon Brito, Adela Legra and Adolfo Lalorado, the film won the Gold Award for excellent directing at the Moscow International Film Festival (1969).

According to the film’s synopsis, his novel begins at the end of the 19th century, during the War of Independence against Spain, and recreates the life of an aristocrat with revolutionary ideas who falls in love and is betrayed by an Iberian officer, while the second moment Lucia, a single young mother from the 1930s, secretly fights against the government of Gerardo Machado.

The plot ends with the dawn of the birth of the Cuban Revolution (January 1, 1959), and the hero, on the occasion, is a peasant woman confronting the prejudices of old machismo practiced by her husband.

Fifteen international awards endorse Lucia’s distinguished position in the cinematography of the Caribbean nation, including important awards in competitions in Spain, Japan, Italy, Austria, Chile and the Dominican Republic, among other countries, and her presence in the shortlist of the 10 best films of Ibero-American cinema.

It is presented in the framework of the Cuban Cinema Exhibition in the Chamber of the Riviera, which for five days hosted shows entitled Cuba Libre (2016) and Boscando a Casale (2019), by Jorge Luis Sánchez, El May (2020), by Rigoberto Lopez and La Bella de la Alhambra ( 1989), by Enrique Pineda Barnett, Cobasin website reported.

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