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Muerte y vida en el Morrillo

1971

A sober, archival portrait that moves like a history lesson with a mournful pulse, rewarding patience with a sense of loss.

Overview
Portrait of Cuban revolutionary intellectual Antonio Guiteras. Political events in Cuba from the end of General Gerardo Machado's dictatorship in 1933 to the death of the revolutionary, who was assassinated in El Morrillo in 1935.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • power
  • corruption
  • justice
  • death
Places
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism9
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Oscar Valdés
Written by
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Country
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