The story of the persecution of homosexuals and intellectuals in Cuba under Fidel Castro's dictatorship, from the beginning of the Cuban Revolution (1953-59) until the early 1980s. Interviews with relevant personalities of Cuban culture who suffered persecution demonstrate that concentration camps for gays existed in Cuba.
Direction
Almendros smuggled truth out of a surveillance state.
Writing
Interviews that Castro desperately wanted silenced.
Director
Néstor Almendros
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Almendros — Oscar-winning cinematographer of 'Days of Heaven' — risked his career and safety to direct this, using his international prestige as cover.
The film was banned in Cuba and most socialist bloc countries; screenings in France drew bomb threats from Castro sympathizers.
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