Lucía (1968)

Directed by

Humberto Solás

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Cuba

Runtime

2h 40m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three different women named Lucia live through three different periods of Cuban history. Each story shows how love and politics collide in their lives.

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What happens

Lucía is a 1968 Cuban black-and-white anthologydrama film directed by Humberto Solás, co-written by Solás, Julio García Espinosa and Nelson Rodríguez. It follows three independent stories in different moments of Cuban history (the Cuban War of Independence, the 1930s during the regime of Gerardo Machado, and shortly after the Cuban Revolution), all as seen through the eyes of three different women named Lucía. It was theatrically released in Cuba on October 1968. It had its international premiere at the Directors' Fortnight section of the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. At the 6th Moscow International Film Festival, it won the Golden Prize and the FIPRESCI prize. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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