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The Padilla Affair
SPAIN RELEASE
June 2, 2023
Madrid Production Companies
Ventú Productions, S.L.U. (Madrid)
Contact
Ventú Productions, S.L.U.
Address
Madrid
DISTRIBUTION
Watson & Holmes, S.L.U. (Sherlock Films) / A Contracorriente Films S.L.
Links
- https://www.acontracorrientefilms.com/movie/the-padilla-affair
- https://www.sherlockfilms.com/pelicula/574/el-caso-padilla/
- https://www.facebook.com/ElCasoPadilla/
- https://twitter.com/elcasopadilla
- https://www.figafilms.com/el-caso-padilla
Sinopsis
Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of complicity at many of his colleagues present at the event, among them, his wife. A month previously, his arrest under the accusation of endangering the security of the Cuban state had mobilised prominent intellectuals all over the world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro calling for the release of the poet, whose only sin had been to dissent through his poetic work.
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Ficha técnica y artística
Year (Age Rated by ICAA)
2022
Genre
Documentary - Politics - Literature - Cuba
RUNTIME
78
FILM RATING
Not recommended for audiences under 7
Original version
Spanish, English, French
Format
2K - 1:1.85 - Dobly 5.1
Locations
Archive footage
Direction
Pavel Giroud
Production
Lía Rodríguez
Cast
Con la participación de / With the participation of: Heberto Padilla, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards, Carlos Fuentes, Fidel Castro
Screenplay
Pavel Giroud
Music
Pablo Cervantes
Edition
Pavel Giroud
Stills
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Awards and festivals
- Premios Platino - Ibero-American Film Awards 2023 Best Documentary Film
- Miami Film Festival 2023 (USA) Best Documentary
- International Film Festival of Uruguay 2023 (Uruguay) Special Mention - Ibero-American Feature Films Competition
- Cineuropa Santiago de Compostela 2022 Festival (Spain) Official Selection - International Panorama - Audience Award
- San Sebastián International Film Festival / Donostia Zinemaldia 2022 (Spain) Horizontes Latinos
- Rome Film Festival 2022 (Italy) Progressive Cinema Competition
- BAFICI Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival 2023 (Argentina) Policies
- BCN Film Fest - Barcelona International Film Festival - Sant Jordi 2023 (Spain) Official selection
- Jeonju International Film Festival 2023 (South Korea) Frontline
- International Film Festival of Panama 2022 (Panama)
- It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival 2022 (Brazil)
- Telluride Film Festival 2022 (USA)