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THE CUBA LIBRE STORY - FROM COLUMBUS TO CHE AND CASTRO
series in eight parts
a film by Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio
THE CUBA LIBRE STORY - FROM COLUMBUS TO CHE AND CASTRO
Germany | 2016 | 416:00 min
Formal CategoriesHistory Conflicts Human Rights
Content CategoriesDocumentary
SYNOPSIS
Cuba – the island where dreams clash. It was the gateway to the New World, the port of call for the American underworld, a crossroads for drug smuggeling. It has brought us cigars, sugar and rum. And a Socialist Revolution: Cuba stands for schools for everybody, and an eternal struggle for freedom.
Cuba may seem synonymous with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, but its history was shaped by adventurer Christopher Columbus, freedom fighter José Martí, Dictator Fulgenico Batista, Mafia Boss Meyer Lansky and many others.
THE CUBA LIBRE STORY tells Cuba’s complete history – looking back at 500 years before the Castro Brothers, and ahead at what will come after them.
For the first time ever, the Russian state film archives of Krasnogorsk, the Red Army and KGB's film archives and the Cuban State Film Archive ICAIC have granted us access to their Cuban treasures.
We tell Cuban history from a transnational perspective, waeve together over 50 exclusive interviews with the most important experts and eyewitnesses of Cuban history – broth from within and outside the island. We bring together both followers and opponents of Fidel Castro and his predecessor Fulgenico Batista…
The titles of the episodes are: Breaking Chains | War and Sugar | Ganster’s Paradise | A Ragtag Revolution | Making Heroes | Of Soviets and Saviors | Secrets and Sacrifices | Moments of Transition
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CAST AND CREWDirector Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio
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The Cuba Libre Story
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| Genre | Documentary |
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| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 52 minutes |
| Production company | LOOKSfilm |
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| Original network | Netflix |
| Original release | December 8, 2016 |
The Cuba Libre Story is a documentary series that portrays the history of Cuba from colonial times to 2015.[1] The eight-part series was released on Netflix on December 11, 2015.[2]
For The Cuba Libre Story, more than 50 international Cuba experts and contemporary witnesses were interviewed - both supporters and opponents of Fidel Castro and his predecessor Fulgencio Batista. Among them are Cuba's former intelligence chief Juan Antonio Rodríguez Menier and KGB Latin America chief Nikolai Leonov, Che Guevara's comrade Dariel Alarcón and CIA agent Félix Rodríguez, Fidel Castro's former lover Marita Lorenz and his former bodyguard Carlos Calvo, the stepdaughter of mafia boss Meyer Lansky, Cuba's famous novelist Leonardo Padura and the last Head of State of the GDR and personal friend of the Castro brothers, Egon Krenz.[3]
Episodes[edit]
| No. | Title | Original air date |
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| 1 | "Breaking Chains" | December 11, 2015 |
| 2 | "War and Sugar" | December 11, 2015 |
| 3 | "Gangster's Paradise" | December 11, 2015 |
| 4 | "A Ragtag Revolution" | December 11, 2015 |
| 5 | "Making Heroes" | December 11, 2015 |
| 6 | "Of Soviets and Saviors" | December 11, 2015 |
| 7 | "Secrets and Sacrifices" | December 11, 2015 |
| 8 | "Moments of Transition" | December 11, 2015 |
References[edit]
- ^ "The Cuba Libre Story". Netflix Media Center. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ "'The Cuba Libre Story' Leaving Netflix in December 2021". What's on Netflix. November 8, 2021.
- ^ "The Cuba Libre Story". LOOKSfilm. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
External links[edit]
The Cuba Libre Story
2015 | Maturity rating:M | 1 season | Political Documentaries
This documentary series recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.
The Cuba Libre Story (Trailer)Episodes
The Cuba Libre Story
Limited Series
Release year: 2015
This documentary series recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.
1. Breaking Chains 52m
After four centuries of Spanish colonial rule, Cubans win their independence, but U.S. intervention at the eleventh hour comes with a price.
2. War and Sugar 53m
Cuba flourishes thanks to sugar production, but relations with the U.S. deteriorate, leading to the rise of military strongman Fulgencio Batista.
3. Gangster's Paradise 52m
A source of illegal rum during Prohibition, Cuba becomes a haven for the Mafia, which seizes control of the country's popular gambling industry.
4. A Ragtag Revolution 53m
On New Year's Day 1959, rebel guerillas led by the Castro brothers and Che Guevara succeed in toppling the corrupt, dictatorial rule of Batista.
5. Making Heroes 53m
Heroes of the revolution include the Castros, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, but Fidel Castro's brutality and radical leftist reforms divide them.
6. Of Soviets and Saviors 53m
When Fidel Castro expropriates U.S. businesses and pursues support from the Soviet Union, the CIA sends assassins, saboteurs and invaders to Cuba.
7. Secrets and Sacrifices51m
Challenges mount in the '80s as Cubans desert their restrictive homeland, cocaine infiltrates the government, and European socialism collapses.
8. Moments of Transition 52m
In the post-Soviet world, the Castros find mutual support in Venezuela, but the Cold War's conclusion brings the country's isolationism to an end.
The Cuba Libre Story Limited Series
출시 연도: 2015
이 다큐멘터리 시리즈는 외국 정복, 자유 투사, 냉전 정치적 책략의 나라인 쿠바의 파란만장한 역사를 다룹니다.
1. 사슬 끊기 52m
1. 사슬 끊기 52m
4세기에 걸친 스페인 식민 통치 끝에 쿠바인들은 독립을 쟁취하지만 미국의 개입에는 대가가 따릅니다.
2. 전쟁과 설탕 53m
쿠바는 설탕 생산 덕분에 번영했지만 미국과의 관계는 악화되어 군사 독재자 Fulgencio Batista의 부상으로 이어졌습니다.
3. 갱스터의 낙원 금주법 기간 동안 불법 럼주 공급원이었던 쿠바는 인기 있는 도박 산업을 장악한 마피아의 안식처가 됩니다.
4. 누더기 혁명 53m
1959년 새해 첫날, 카스트로 형제와 체 게바라가 이끄는 반군 게릴라가 바티스타의 부패한 독재 정권을 무너뜨리는 데 성공합니다.
5. 영웅 만들기 53m
혁명의 영웅에는 카스트로, 체 게바라, 카밀로 시엔푸에고스가 포함되지만 피델 카스트로의 잔인성과 급진적 좌파 개혁은 그들을 분열시킨다.
6. 소련과 구세주 53m
피델 카스트로가 미국 기업을 몰수하고 소련의 지원을 요청하자 CIA는 암살자, 파괴 공작원, 침략자를 쿠바로 보냅니다.
7. 비밀과 희생 51m
쿠바인들이 제한적인 고국을 버리고 코카인이 정부에 침투하고 유럽 사회주의가 무너지면서 80년대에 도전이 시작되었습니다.
8. 전환의 순간 52 m
탈소비에트 세계에서 카스트로는 베네수엘라에서 상호 지원을 찾았지만 냉전의 종식으로 국가의 고립주의가 종식되었습니다.
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