Film critic; author; member of the selection committee of the Forum until 2001
Date of recording: 27.1.2013
Language: German with English subtitles
Film:
ALICIA EN EL PUEBLO DE MARAVILLAS (Alicia am Ort der Wunder / Alice in Wonderland, Daniel Díaz Torres, Cuba 1991)
Items:
December 1990; Havana Film Festival; Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; internal pre-screening; key scenes; sanatorium as metaphor; Julio Garcia Espínosa; strange reactions in the Forum committee; socialist realism?; Forum 1991; protests in Cuba; agents directed from afar; smear campaign against Daniel Díaz Torres and Jesus Díaz; Cuban Film Institute threatened with closure; Fidel Castro; Alfredo Guevara; Jesus Díaz; distribution through bootleg copies; Peter B. Schumann persona non grata in Cuba.