Cuba and the Cameraman
2017 · Movie · 113 min · ★ 7.5 · 91% critics
This long-term documentary revisits Cuba over decades, pairing rare access to its longtime leader with the day-to-day lives of several families shaped by shifting policies and hard economic realities. As years pass, it captures resilience, humor, and disagreement, letting viewers watch how ordinary people adapt as the country changes.
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Details
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-09-08
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 91/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (119 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a decades-spanning, people-first look at a country’s changes and can handle mixed viewpoints; Not for you if you want a strictly even-handed political history or less personal probing, like in Life of Crime: 1984-2020.
Pros: intimate long-term access; moving human stories; thought-provoking perspective | Cons: feels politically biased; intrusive questioning at times; limited broader context
Themes
- cuba
- dictatorship
- poverty
- communism
- passage of time
- investigative
- provocative
Cast & crew
Jon Alpert
as Self
Fidel Castro
as Self
- AB
Angél Borrego
as Self
- CB
Cristobal Borrego
as Self
- GB
Gregorio Borrego
as Self
- LA
Luis Amores
as Self
Directed by Jon Alpert