Chilean-born, Cuban-raised, French-based filmmaker Camila Guzman Urzua's melancholy documentary meditation on her childhood in the "Golden Age" of Che Guevara's revolution.
"The country of my childhood has disappeared," says Urzua as she prowls the run-down streets, schools, apartment blocks and Pioneer Camps where she and her classmates grew up in a relative comfort and the secure knowledge that they were helping to build a better, brighter future for their country. Urzua's parents fled Chile after a military coup overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973. Fidel Castro's government welcomed them in Cuba, giving the family citizenship and an apartment in ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins