Coffea Arábiga
Nicolás Guillén Landrián, 1968, CU, 16mm, 18'
The Cuban Film Institute commanded Landrián to make a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana. The result is a didactic film, which at the same time managed to betray the official proposal. The great irreverence: the use in the soundtrack of a forbidden song by The Beatles, The fool on the hill, when Castro walks to a podium for a speech. The documentary was exhibited but banned as soon as the coffee plan collapsed.



