Cuban Masterworks Collection Obras Maestras del Cine Cubano (Cuba)Call Number: [DVD] 791.43 C9624
Five restored classic films from Cuba
• Dolce Sillas (The Twelve Chairs): A rich woman decides, before dying, to hide the family jewels under a chair lining. A former proprietor and his former driver try to locate the treasure. The film is full of comic situations and adventures.
• Aventuras de Juan Quin: A peasant farmer becomes a soldier in the Cuban revolution in an offbeat adventure.
• Un Hombre de Éxito (A Successful Man: Cuba’s history before the Revolution is chronicled through the story of two brothers, one a revolutionary man of action, the other an unscrupulous politician trying to steer a treacherous middle path between opposing political ideas.
• Cecilia: In 1830 Cuba, the son of a rich colonial family falls in love with a proud, beautiful but poor mulatto girl. His father, however, wants him to marry a woman from his own social class.
• Amada: Set in Havana in 1914, as World War I begins. Amada, a young conservative bourgeois woman unhappily married to an ambitious politician, and tied to obsolete values, falls passionately in love with her cousin Marcial, a young nonconformist who tries unsuccessfully to shake her out of her traditionalism with tragic results.