Cecilia (1982 film)

• Daisy Granados
• Imanoel Arias
• Raquel Revuelta
• Gerardo Riverón
• Miguel Benavides
• Eslinda Nunez
• Nelson Villagra
• Alejandro Lugo
• Enrique Almirante
• Aldredo Mayo

Cecilia Valdés is a Cuban film produced in 1981. Submission is the novel " Cecilia Valdés or the Angel Hill" by Cirilo Villaverde. The film bears the original version titled " Cecilia ". He was voiced by DEFA.

Action

By 1830, lives in Cuba Cecilia Valdés, the daughter of a colored family that works for the Schneider Uribe. Due to its beauty and exceptional light skin and her mother and grandmother want to cause them to find a rich white man. At an evening party Cecilia makes the acquaintance of Leonardo Gamboa, the son of a wealthy plantation owner. Jose Dolores Pimento, a friend of Cecilia's employer Uribe, who is also in love with Cecilia, meanwhile, is preparing before a rebellion. Uribe hesitates. To prove his love Cecilia, Leonardo hiding a wounded colored revolutionary. Leonardo's mother forces her son to marry Amanda befitting a white woman. In addition, it shows the governor to the hiding place of the injured party, which is then locked. Leonardo has not the strength to oppose his mother, and to distance themselves from the cruel Skalenhalterei his family. During a traditional carnival feast of the uprising breaks out. Uribe tried to kill the police chief, but he fails because he does not shoot at the crucial moment and will be arrested. José wants revenge for the betrayed mother of Leonardo's revolutionary. Cecilia gives him a dagger and asks him not to kill Leonardo, but his mother. To escape the police, José wearing a carnival costume as he penetrates during the wedding in the church and Leonardo stabs. Cecilia then pounces from the church tower.

Reviews

" Cecilia is a film of great dramatic force and a perfect mastery of the means of expression. "

" Since bloom dreams in the manner of magical realism, since making shiver fear visions and shudder as rituals and ceremonies are spread out like a carpet full color. Since there are always subtle visual compositions, dynamic crowd scenes and clever arrangements, art appreciation and professional calculus flare up. "

" Picturesque in its optical arrangements, restrained in color, lush in his choice of means of design involving also legends and myths, he is taken several times expressive, overwhelming image sequences full of sensual energy and passionate beauty, even naturalistic starkness and excessive pathos - as namely in his vision of the slaves rise up against their tormentors and is directed as the unfaithful lover at his wedding ceremony. That's great, uplifting Cuban cinema. "