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The Survivors
CUBA · 1979

The Survivors

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
class struggle political ideology social decay isolation and withdrawal revolution and counter-revolution
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Synopsis

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of political order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery."

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