Olivia Belizaires

In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

A historical epic, cast in the style of a realistic narrative with symbolic overtones, about runaway slaves and their hunters in the mid-nineteenth century, which weaves an analysis of the factional divisions between coffee and sugar interests, plantation owners and smallholders, around the drama of the Rancheador searching for the mythical rebel slave leader, Mother Manchora.

The daily life of the residents of one house, most of whose lives, in accordance with the customs of southern countries, take place in the courtyard, reflects the national character, the customs of the common people, their talent, and, most importantly, the new things that each new day brings to life in Cuba in the 1960s.