{"id":35737,"date":"2015-12-11T18:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T17:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/looks.film\/the-cuba-libre-story\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:12:06","slug":"the-cuba-libre-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looks.film\/en\/the-cuba-libre-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cuba Libre Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax=&#8221;content-moving-fade&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;33081&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590657131033{background-position: center;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590657307471{padding-top: 35px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1592585344033{padding-left: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #00263e;\"><span class=\"label-inline dtable--label\">2015 | Docuseries | <span class=\"label-above dtable--label\">8 x 45&#8242;, 8 x 52&#8242;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #00263e;\"><span class=\"dtable--txt\"><span class=\"sep-item\"> | <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"imdbRatingPlugin\" data-user=\"ur1705756\" data-title=\"tt5319838\" data-style=\"p4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5319838\/?ref_=plg_rt_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/images\/imdb_31x14.png\" alt=\"The Cuba Libre Story (2015) on IMDb\" \/><\/a><\/span><script>(function(d,s,id){var js,stags=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id)){return;}js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"https:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/js\/rating.js\";stags.parentNode.insertBefore(js,stags);})(document,\"script\",\"imdb-rating-api\");<\/script> |<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cuba_Libre_Story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-33019\" src=\"https:\/\/looks.film\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/WIKIPEDIA-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>The Cuba Libre Story<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;10px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590657295255{padding-left: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1592217375874{margin-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1592585358369{padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Cuba \u2013 the island where dreams clash. It was the gateway to the New World, the port of call for the American underworld, a crossroads for drug smuggeling. It has brought us cigars, sugar and rum. And a Socialist Revolution: Cuba stands for schools for everybody, and an eternal struggle for freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The island may seem synonymous with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, but its history was shaped by adventurer Christopher Columbus, freedom fighter Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed, Dictator Fulgenico Batista, Mafia Boss Meyer Lansky and many others.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, the Russian state film archives of Krasnogorsk, the Red Army and KGB\u2019s film archives and the Cuban State Film Archive ICAIC have granted us access to their Cuban treasures. We tell Cuban history from a transnational perspective. All footage has been newly scanned, digitally restored and re-mastered, from the Spanish-American War of 1898, which was the first war in history ever to be filmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cuba Libre Story\u201d weaves together over 50 exclusive interviews with the most important experts and eyewitnesses of Cuban history \u2013 broth from within and outside the island. We bring together both followers and opponents of Fidel Castro and his predecessor Fulgenico Batista.<\/p>\n<p>We hear from Juan Antonio Rodriguez Menier, former chief of Castro\u2019s secret service and Nikolai Leonov, head of the KGB in Latin America from 1953 onwards (and Vladimir Putin\u2019s former boss and mentor), from Marita Lorenz, Castro\u2019s former lover and Carlos Calvo, Castro\u2019s former bodyguard.<\/p>\n<p>We hear from Cynthia Duncan, granddaughter of Mafia boss Meyer Lansky, Leonardo Padura, Cuba\u2019s most famous novelist and Egon Krenz, East Germany\u2019s last head of state and personal friend of the Castro brothers.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590656991471{padding-right: 70px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>Press<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2017\/may\/07\/on-my-radar-justine-frischmann-cultural-highlights-eliott-smith-wendy-white-bernie-sanders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>&#8220;<u>The story of how a handful of young people, driven by an idea, staged a revolution and changed the fate of Cuba is almost unbelievable.<\/u>&#8220;<\/em> \u00a0 The Guardian<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<strong>Distribution<\/strong><br \/>\nBettina Offermann | <u><\/u><a href=\"mailto:distribution@looks.film\"><u>distribution@looks.film<\/u><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Executive Producers<\/strong><br \/>\nGunnar Dedio | LOOKSfilm<br \/>\nGr\u00e9gory Schnebelen | Interscoop<br \/>\nIgor Prokopenko | Format TV<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dtable--txt\"><strong>A co-production by<\/strong><br \/>\nLOOKSfilm, ZDFinfo, Interscoop, Format TV, TVC, INA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors &amp; Directors<\/strong><br \/>\nEmmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creative Producers<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/looks.film\/en\/reginabouchehri-ceo\/\">Regina Bouchehri<\/a>, Louis-David Delahaye, Birgit Rasch, Olga Zatulkina<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;37298&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,164,179,203,202,196],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Cuba Libre Story - LOOKSfilm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;The Cuba Libre Story&quot; tells Cuban history from a transnational perspective. 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