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First Cuban Film Festival Taking Place in Athens

Athens and “Trianon” Film Theater will host the first ever Cuban Film Festival to take place in Greece. Organized by the Cuban Embassy to Athens, cinema enthusiasts will have the chance of watching a total of 33 films, including famous masterpieces and rare film features that celebrate the anniversary of the Cuban revolution of July 26, 1956. The Festival will be running from July 26th to August 1st.
Victor Pahlem’s “Cuban Story” (1959) will be screened during the one-week long festival. The film records Fidel Castro’s rise to power featuring Hollywood star Errol Flynn.
“Death of a Bureaucrat” (1966) by Tomas Gutierrez Alea is a satire against the horrible monster of bureaucracy and builds on a Kafkian environment. In “Memories of Underdevelopment” (1968) Gutierrez Alea reconstructs the novel of Edmundo Desnoes “Inconsolable Memories” and puts a finger on the urban leftovers within the new regime emerging in Cuba.
The program also includes the screenings of Uberto Sola’s “Lucia” (1968) and the Oscar awarded documentary feature “Buena Vista Social Club” (1999) by Wim Wender.

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