Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solas was only 26 when he directed Lucia. It is a tri-part revolutionary feature about overcoming imperialist politics. It is also a realistic depiction of romance under threat by conflict, dictatorship and repression. Solanas's story examines the history of the country by looking at the lives of three women called Lucia.
Cuba, 1895: as the Cubans fight for independence from Spain, an aristocrat named Lucia has an affair with a Spanish soldier, betraying her family in the process. Cuba, 1933: a woman named Lucia abandons her middle-class life to go underground and join her lover, a member of the resistance struggle against the Machado dictatorship. Cuba, an undisclosed date during the 1960s: following the victory of Castro's revolution, a newly married working-class woman named Lucia struggles to retain her independence and her job in agriculture in the face of her overbearing husband's assertions that she is not to leave the house.
DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 02:39:01 | 7.43 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Espanol
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Humberto Solas
Cast: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Nunez, Adela Legra
Country: Cuba