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The Padilla Affair

7.020231h 18mMovieDocumentary

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…

DirectorPavel Giroud
WriterPavel Giroud
ProducerLía Rodríguez

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Cast · Directed by Pavel Giroud

HPHeberto Padilla
Heberto Padilla
Self (archive footage)
FCFidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
GMGabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Self (archive footage)
JCJulio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar
Self (archive footage)
MLMario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Self (archive footage)
JSJean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Self (archive footage)
BM
Belkis Cuza Malé
Self (archive footage)

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