''Lucía'' is a 1968 Cuban
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drama film
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directed by
Humberto Solás
Humberto Solás (4 December 1941 – 18 September 2008) was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the film ''Lucía'' (1968), which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history.
His cinematic style bor ...
, and written by Solás,
Julio García Espinosa
Julio García Espinosa (5 September 1926 – 13 April 2016) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter.Nelson Rodríguez
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. It was the winner of the Golden Prize and the Prix
FIPRESCI at the
6th Moscow International Film Festival in 1969.
The film is a
period piece
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, told in three stories in different moments of
Cuban history
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(the
Cuban war of independence, the
1930s during the regime of
Gerardo Machado and the
1960s), all as seen through the eyes of a different woman, each named Lucía.
''Lucia'' was digitally restored by the
Cineteca di Bologna
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with funding from
World Cinema Project
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and
Turner Classic Movies
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and later screened at the Cannes Classics section of the
70th Cannes Film Festival in May 2017. The restoration also screened at the 55th New York Film Festival in the revivals section.
Cast
Part 1: Cuban War of Independence
* Raquel Revuelta as Lucía
* Eduardo Moure as Rafael
Part 2: the 1930s
* Eslinda Núñez as Lucía
* Ramón Brito as Aldo
Part 3: the 1960s
* Adela Legrá as Lucía
* Adolfo Llauradó as Tomas
See also
*
List of Cuban films
This is an incomplete list of films produced in Cuba in chronological order. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia see :Cuban films.
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
200 ...
References
External links
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Lucia. Struggles with History
1968 films
1968 drama films
Cuban black-and-white films
Films directed by Humberto Solás
Films set in the 1890s
Films set in the 1930s
Films set in the 1960s
1960s Spanish-language films
Anthology films
Cuban drama films
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