72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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La tierra y el cielo / The Earth and the Sky

Manuel Octavio Gómez
Cuba
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In the 1940s, thousands of Haitians were taken to Cuba as cheap labor. There they live with the hope of one day returning to their land with their savings until, unexpectedly, He rhey are repatriated. Pedro Limón, after many years, returns to his village, which he finds different in his men and landscapes. Remembers his miserable life and the violence of repatriation. He also remembers happy moments. Pedro has to decide between a magical world and a human, real world, between "the earth and the sky"

Director
Manuel Octavio Gómez (Cuba)
Screenplay
Antonio benítez Rojo, Manuel Octavio Gómez
Photography
Liviio Delgado
Edition
Nelson Rodríguez
Music
Sergio Vitier
Cast
Samuel Claxton, Tito Junco, José Díaz Diosnier, Ildefonso Tamayo
Running Time
87 m.
Country
Cuba
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