Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel

  • Ricardo Martínez
  • Miriam Martínez

Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel is the first feature documentary film by Swiss director Christian Frei from the year 1997. The film portrays Miriam Martínez and her father, the Cuban revolutionaries Ricardo Martínez. Daughter and father are torn between the desire to emigrate to the United States and the ideals of the Cuban Revolution. The film premiered in 1997 at the International Documentary Film Festival Visions du Reel in Nyon ( Switzerland ).

Content

Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel is a report of two individual lives and at the same time told the loss of utopias and the clash of ideologies in Cuba. Miriam Martínez wants to emigrate like many of their compatriots in the United States. As the daughter of the Cuban revolutionary Ricardo Martínez, this is for them especially difficult. Ricardo had given up his position in the 1950s as a radio journalist in order to join the rebels of Fidel Castro. Under the direction of Che Guevara, he had founded the pirate radio station Radio Rebelde. This radio has become an important information tool of the Cuban Revolution. The documentary Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel shows historical photographs from the period of Radio Rebelde and suggests the areas covered in the present, in the time of Miriam, which had requested information on Radio and TV Martí. Radio Martí sends as an arm of the Voice of America towards Cuba. The film thus treated a piece of media history. Radio Martí is, according to the International Broadcasting Bureau, the number one radio station in the world history, but reached the station already months after its launch in 1985 a Hörbeteiligung of over 80 percent. In the film speaks the boss of Radio and TV Martí, the historian Rolando E. Bonachea. Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel shows the ambivalence of feelings of father and daughter. The reality has made the once dedicated fighters for the revolution to a disillusioned pensioner, the daughter is indeed reached the end of the film in the land of their dreams, so happy it does not seem. The parting of the two was a farewell for ever, because the daughter will not be able to travel back to Cuba.

Reviews

" The human representation of a political conflict makes Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel to a masterful film that shows how to include both sides of the same coin. "

" In search of objectivity free shows contradictions and paradoxes and avoids taking sides for one or the other side. (...) All of this makes things with great care for the story-telling and the aesthetics ( the quality of the photography to the economical use of music), underlining the global appeal of the film in addition. "

"Am impressive example of a father-daughter relationship, the incurable conflict of the present-day Cuba is felt. "

" The parting is a focal point of a rich set of information as well as emotionally gripping moments film masterfully combines the individual story with side lights on a piece of Cuban-American media history. "

Awards

  • Basic Trust International Human Rights Film Festival Ramallah -Tel Aviv 2000: Audience Award winner
  • International Documentary Film Festival DOK.fest Munich 1998: Competition
  • Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 1998: section "Perspectives of New Cinema »
  • Solothurn Film Festival 1998: Opening Film
  • International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam IDFA 1997: Section " Reflecting Images »
  • São Paulo International Film Festival 1997: Section " competição Novos Diretores »
  • Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 1997: Section "Made in Spanish »
  • Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, New York City 1997
  • Chicago Latino Film Festival 1997
  • Visions du Reel Nyon 1997: Competition
1997 in film Screenplay Film score Arturo Sandoval
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