"ICAIC presents" "INCONSOLABLE MEMORIES" "Based on the novel by Edmundo Desnoes" "Director of photography:" "Ramón F. suárez" "Edited by:" "Nelson Rodríguez" "Music:" "Leo Brouwer Conducted by:" "Manuel Duchesne Cuzán" "With a special performance by:" "Pello el Afrocán" "Directed by:" "Tomás GutiérrezAlea" "Havana, 1961." "Many people are leaving the country." "she'll have to go to work there..." "Well, that is, until she finds some dumb guy who'll marry her." "To tell the truth, she's until something to look at... she'll remember me as long as she's having a rough time, after that..." "I'm the one who's really stupid." "Working so that she could live like someone who had been born in New York or Paris, and not in this underdeveloped island..." "Excuse me." "GIRoN" "All those who loved and nagged me up to the last moment have already gone..." "I've been saying for years that if I had the time" "I would sit down and write a book of stories or a diary;" "now I'll find out if I have anything to say... everything is the same." "Here everything is the same." "All of a sudden it looks like a set, a city of cardboard." "The Bronze Titan..." "Cuba, free and independent..." "Who would have thought that this could happen?" "Without the imperial eagle." "Where is the dove Picasso was going to send?" "It's very comfortable being a communist millionaire in Paris." ""This humanity has said enough and has begun to move"." "Like my parents, like Laura, and they won't stop until they get to Miami." "However, today everything looks so different." "Have I changed or has the city changed?" "It is the time of departure... oh!" "Abandoned like the wharves at dawn." "Everything in you was like a shipwreck." "I mean, what are you reading?" "something banal, frivolous and superficial." ""The Best of Everything"." " oh, yes." "That film..." " Yes." " Leave me alone, please." " Me?" "Yes, you're looking at me as if I were some strange inset." "I can't read like this." "Why don't we talk a little?" "What's bitten you?" "You can only talk about when we're surrounded by insects all day?" "What am I going to talk about?" "one's just surrounded by bugs all day, by rabble, by dirty people..." " This country is falling behind, as you say." " What do you think?" "Why do you say that?" "You've never been interested in what I think about anything..." " What's come over you?" " You're practicing your English a lot lately." " I think you intend to leave." " Leave me alone!" "I like you more when you getvulgar..." "That always excites me, when I see you struggle between elegance and vulgarity." "I've been looking atyou for some time now and you're looking really strange." "Lately you're rather disgusting." "It's that I don't have any Yardley's hair lotion, nor any Colgate toothpaste, nor any after-shave lotion..." " As you know, all that helps a lot." " Yes, it must be that..." " And yetyou get more attractive each day." " Really?" "You're more artificial." "I don't like natural beauty." "I like women like you, who are made with good clothes, good food, make-up, massages." "Thanks to thatyou have stopped being a slovenly Cuban girl to become a beautiful and dazzling woman." "I never know when you're telling the truth or when you're kidding." " A little of both, darling." " Well, go kid your mother, darling." "Go to hell!" " That's very good!" " Are you crazy, stupid?" "Let me go, I can't stand you," "I can't stand living here any longer, I can't stand the heat." "You stink." "Let me go." "Everything you said was taped." " What?" " Everything." "Word for word." "It'll be fun later on, when you hear it." " You monster!" "You're sick!" " Be careful, you'll break it!" "Here women look into your eyes as if they would like to be touched by your look." "That only happens here." "People only look after their own problems." "Maybe Italian women gaze a little longer, but no, it's never like here." "since "El Encanto" burned down, Havana is like a country town," "to thinkthey once called it the Paris of the Caribbean." ""our wine is sour but it's our wine"." "That's what the tourists and the whores used to call it." "Now it looks more like a Tegucigalpa of the Caribbean." "It's not only because there are few good things in the stores." "It's also because of the people." "What meaning has life for them?" "What meaning has it for me?" "But I'm not like them!" "Pablo" "These people say they're making the first socialist revolution in America." "so what?" "They're going backto the jungle." "They'll go hungry." "Like the Haitians." "They beat Napoleon and so?" "They had the most important sugar industry in the world before the revolution, and look at them now." "Times change." "Besides, Sergio, this is not our problem, this is a problem between Russians and Americans;" "we have nothing to do with it." "Listen to me, Sergio, this whole thing is going to blow up." "We're going to catch the first punch either of them throws, and you know why?" "Because we're so small a teeny tiny island, it will be you who'll catch the punch, because I won't be here." "To thinkthat we've been friends for more than five years." "Under Batista, things had reached the point where you couldn't take it any longer." "Not for me, I never got involved in politics, my conscience is clear." "The only thing I've done all my live is to work, to work like an animal." "Can you imagine Anita?" "so beautiful and yet her stomach is stuffed with black beans." "Today I saw her having lunch at "La Terraza"" "But after all they have all the resources anyway, Sergio." "They definitely have all the means to develop his country's economy." "Fully..." " The "know-how"?" " Yes, the "know-how"." "The Americans know howto do things;" "they know howto make things run." "Three." " Checkthe oil." " Haven't got any..." "If you want I can check it anyway." "No." "What for?" "Shit, I feel like tearing down everything." "I've got to hand it in the same condition as it was before." "Why?" "It's been inventoried, if I don't hand it in like it was I can't leave..." "I can't get the sealed unit, you'll have to do thatyourself." "Things aren't what they used to be..." "Yes, I knowthat." "It will not lookthe same." "If you can't get wood alcohol, you'll have to use synthetic paint, which isn't the same, you'll have to paint at least this part" " so it won't look bad." " Yes, I know." " What about this dent?" " Well, this down here, too." "He says the only thing a Cuban can't stand is hunger." "All the starvation we've gone through since the spaniards came!" "In Latin America four children die every minute due to illnesses cause malnutrition." "After ten years there will be 20 million children dead." "The same number of deaths caused by the second World War." "It's a symbol of decadence." "But I feel better, that way I don't have to go on fixing it." " Well, if you like to walk." " No, but I feel more at ease." " Yes?" " Yes." "I don't have any problems." "They say the latestAmerican cars are incredible," "I was reading a magazine Julio had lent me." "sealed motors with two spark plugs and a two-year warranty." "If it breaks down they give you another one." "Can you imagine?" "With the mechanics we have here that's the solution." "People seem to me more stupid." "Pablo is right, all the French stink." "They're just naturally dirty..." "It's the same to me if they take it all," "I don't care!" "But now it's going to be different, man" "But now I'm not going to stay at home and do nothing like when they were fighting Batista." "No." "The truth is I never thought they could overthrow him" "I must do something now or I won't be able to operate when this thing blows up." " That's what they said." " Who?" "The Bay of Pigs prisoners." "oh!" "Listen to me." "THETRUTH OF THE GROUP Is IN THE MURDERER" "We found under the military organization of the invaders an order in the social duties that summarize the division in the moral and social functions of the bourgeoisie:" "the priest, the free enterprise man, the dilettantish official, the torturer, the philosopher, the politician" "and the innumerable sons of good families." "Each one of them carried out specific duties, and yet it was the whole, the group, which gave meaning to each individual activity." "Calviño was a murderer who caused horror and scorn even among the bourgeoisie." "The housecoat I wore..." "There are still bloodstains in front because he kicked me in the stomach and I had a haemorrhage." "That wasn't enough for him." "I had to fight so they wouldn't do that, and they broke two of my vertebras." "Do you remember?" "When they started hitting him with sticks, you also hit him." "He fell on his knees and you kicked him in the side and he fell on the floor." "Do you remember?" "so after you murdered him you abused him also?" "He's a murderer!" " In front of you?" " I saw you!" "You shot him and then laughed at the way he died!" " Excuse me..." " At 106 Avellaneda st." " October 6th, at seven o'clock in the evening." " shut up, Calviño." " Listen to me." " And say it isn't so." "Say it isn't so." "Say it isn't true that after you killed Morua, nine days later, you told me how you had killed him." " say it, Calviño." " I can't answer her." "In all capitalist societies there is this same type of man at the disposal of the bourgeoisie, who is in charge of such singular duties." "In the division of moral work the murderer permits the existence of those who are not directly in contact with death, and as separate individuals, they want to keep their souls clean." "I'm talking for myself and for those who think like me, we might be in the minority," "I'm not talking for Ventura nor for those miserable creatures that have been named." " I didn't even know Calviño at that time." " You didn't know him?" "I was just interested in living my own life." "They appear like disjointed elements of a totality which nobody assumes completely." "I can't answer for the others." "Because everybody answers for himself." "It seems like you want to accuse me of being the originator of the invasion," " No, no, I don't blame you of anything." " I'm telling you I..." "I want to insist that my mission was purely spiritual." "I have never handled a weapon." "The fact that one is mixed up in the conspiracy doesn't make him a conspirator." "I've told you that I have never been a political person." "I never had anything to do with any political party, and also, it's your personal behavior that frees you form responsibility." "Everyone refers to his own individuality when he wants to walk away from the alien misfortune that contaminates him, or he sinks into the group when he has to conceal his own responsibility, and then he, unashamedly, contaminates the others" "We are now a group." "I'm not the only one now." "It can be seen howthat responsibility, repelled by all, is returned and recovered by a member of the same group..." "No, you're talking of the group's cause." "It isn't mine." "In fact, the murderer-torturer resorts to the category of totality in order to claim his moral irresponsibility." "Listen, I've committed no direct crime, I'm telling you." "Meeting adjourned." "But in none of the cases considered was there a recovery of the true dialectic relationship between individuals and the group." "The others who came with Calviño don't recognize themselves as part of the system which entangles them in their own acts." "In the accounts of Freyre, the land baron;" "in the extreme unctions of Lugo, the priest;" "in the reasoning of Andrue, the philosopher;" "in the dismissals and in the bood of Rivero, the dilettante;" "in the "representative democracy"of Varona, who could read clearly the death which through them spread over Cuba, death by hunger, by sickness, by torture, by frustration?" "NoEMÍ." "she comes three times a week to clean the apartment." "she's been coming for over a year and I've never noticed her." "If she would fix herself up and dress better she would be very attractive." "she's as thin as a Vogue model." "I like her." "Born in Matanzas and a protestant." "A Baptist, I think." "Did they baptize you in a river?" "of course..." "And then..." "Well." "Can't I know?" "The group gathered at the edge of the river." "The pastor and I went into the water." "Afterwards he told me what baptism means." "It symbolizes the death of sin, the resurrection of a new life full of faith, of hope, of dignity, then he took me to the deepest part and put me under." "If you could have seen how scared I was!" "But everything happened so quickly I didn't even notice." "All that anxiety and all that fuss, for nothing." "Almost everybody is an exhibitionist." "They generally give me the impression of defenselessness, almost hairless animals, balanced precariously on two legs." "someone once said man's intelligence and physical imperfection are due to the fact that he is the premature fetus of the monkey." "There is an exquisite moment between 30 and 35 when Cuban women suddenly pass from maturity to poverty." "They are fruits which rot at an amazing speed." "And the rule of the Yankees' empire having been ended by the revolution, the United states now uses the Guantanamo Naval Base as an espionage center in Cuba." "ICAIC cameramen film some of the provocations of military personnel and counterrevolutionaries exiled on the Base." "ELENA" "You have beautiful knees!" " Do you want to have dinner with me?" " Are you crazy?" "No, I just don't like to eat alone." "What are you doing here?" "Waiting for someone?" " Your boyfriend?" " Are you crazy?" "Atyour age it's dangerous to be alone around here." "You are crazy!" "No, look, really." "Why don'tyou come with me?" "I can't digest properly when I eat alone." "I'm waiting for someone from ICAIC who called me about a job." "From ICAIC?" "They're going to test me for a film." "I have a friend who's pretty important there." "He's a director, I believe." " At ICAIC?" " Yes." "If you want I'll introduce him to you." " What time is it?" " Around six thirty." "He's late." "He won't come now." "Are you coming...?" "Bring me a dry Martini first..." "Why don'tyou have something to drink?" "I can't drink;" "I'm taking these shots for my nerves." "Look..." "Why do you want to be an actress?" "Because I'm tired of always being the same." "That way I can be someone else without people thinking I'm crazy." "I want to unfold my personality." "But all those characters are like scratched records." "The only thing an actress does is to repeat the same movements and the same words thousands of times." "Where did you get them?" "They showed up one day." "These are the cuts the Commission made." "What commission?" "The Revision Commission." "What we used to have before the revolution." "Those are the shots they took out." "They said they were offensive to morals and good breeding." "Against morality, good customs, all that stuff..." "Yes, yes, yes, now I remember." " Well, I'm leaving, cause I've got a test now." " see you." "It looks like they also had their moral preoccupations." "At least they worry about keeping up a front." " I'm thinking of using them." " In a film?" "Yes." "Yes." "It'll be a "collage" that'll have a bit of everything." " It will have a meaning." " It's coming along, you'll see." " Will they release it?" " Yes." "Come on." "What's your experience?" "Have you worked in the theatre, T.V. or something?" "No, I haven't had any luck." "Have you studied?" "I was going to take some classes once, but..." "I didn't." "Well, write that in on the form." "Aren'tyou going to try me out now?" "I can also sing." "This sadness rejects oblivion Like darkness rejects light." "I hope destiny lets you return one day, to remember..." "If you say so..." "And you?" " No." " sure that it's no?" "What a beautiful house!" "Like it?" "I don't know." "You don't thinkthat we'll do anything." "Look, that's where I live." "Come on." "What's the matter?" " I don't..." " Don't what?" "And your wife?" "Didn't I tell you I'm divorced?" " Well, even then..." " Even then what?" "What'll the neighbors think?" "Well, if you don't trust me..." "It isn't that." "What is it then?" "Well." "You go up first." "on the top floor, apartment K-L." "Make yourself comfortable." "I'll make some coffee." "They're my parents, that's Laura." "They left the same day." "And you?" "I, what?" "Aren'tyou leaving?" "I'm fine right here." "Are you a revolutionary?" "What do you think?" "Thatyou're neither a revolutionary nor a counterrevolutionary." "Then, what am I?" "You're nothing." "They'll send you things." "What for?" "Nice shoes." "What do I know!" "They could even send you a car." "Laura had a figure like yours more or less." "If you want I can show you some of her dresses." "If you like them you can keep them." "But." "Look at them anyway." "You look fine, take a look..." "You'll have to button me up." "Come on, don't cry." "Please don't..." " Come on." " You've ruined me!" "Who, me?" "We haven't done anything wrong..." "What am I going to tell my mother?" "Don't tell her anything." "If you wait a minute, I'll go with you." "No, I want to be alone." "Call me." "Thanks to that, you've stopped being a slovenly Cuban girl, and have become a beautiful, exciting woman." "I can't stand you." "I never know when you're telling the truth or when you're kidding me." " A little of both, darling." " Well, go kid your mother, darling." " Go to hell!" " That's good, that's very good!" "Are you crazy, stupid?" "Let me go, I can't stand you." "I can't stand the heat, the sweat." "You sweat too much, you stink." "Let me go!" "Everything you said is taped?" " What?" " Everything." "Word for word." "It'll be fun later on, when you hear it." "You monster!" "You're sick!" "Be careful!" "You'll break it!" "Give it to me!" "Let me go!" "We're through!" "I never want to see you again!" "I'm leaving." "I'm going alone." "I don't wantyou to come with me." "so, you want to leave me?" "I don't care!" " Didn'tyou use to say...?" " Nothing!" "I won't be a guinea pig for your whims and little games." "I'm going to live my own life!" "I'm getting old!" "Do you hear!" "old!" "iI leave alone!" "iI leave alone!" "iI don't care anymore thatyou come with me!" "What's this...?" "Before your lips confirmed that you loved me, I knew it, I knew it." " Are you all right now?" " Who, me?" "I though you didn't feel well." "I didn't, but I'm all right now." "I came to see how you were." "If you like I can help you make lunch." " What's wrong with you?" " Nothing at all..." "Go on and say it; it couldn't last, It's all over," "It couldn't be, you don't love me any more..." "Do you like the song?" "Then all that crying last night?" " Don't make fun of me." " I'm not making fun of you." "You just don't have any feelings..." "You don't have to criticize the way I live, if all I have now... one of the things that really gets me about people is their inability to sustain a feeling, an idea, without falling apart." "Elena proved to be totally inconsistent." "It's pure alteration, as ortega would say." "she doesn't relate things." "That's one of the signs of underdevelopment:" "the inability to relate things, to accumulate experience and to develop." "It is difficult because here one produces a woman shaped by sentiments and culture." "It's a soft environment." "Cubans waste their talents adapting themselves to every moment." "People aren't consistent." "And they always need someone to think for them." " I hope I'll see you soon, Sergio." " I don't think so." "I already knowthe states and what's going to happen here is a mystery to me." "Everyone knows what's going to happen here." "Well, I don't." "I really don't." "It won't be like the Bay of Pigs." "Maybe." "But that could have interesting results." "That's true." "But I want to be on the other side." "You'll be safer." "And you'll also be able to see old friends." " I know whatyou're driving at." " Yes?" "Yes." "But there are also decent people amongst them." "At least that's what they say." "I don't know if they say that or not." "My conscience is clear." "Yours, yes." "Was I like him, before?" "It's possible." "Although it may destroy me, this revolution is my revenge against the stupid Cuban bourgeoisie." "Against idiots like Pablo." "I realize that Pablo isn't Pablo, he's my own life." "Everything I don't want to be." "It's good to see them leave." "Just as if I threwthem up." "I keep my mind clear." "It's a disagreeable clarity, empty." "I know what's happening to me but I can't avoid it." "He, Laura, everybody..." "Francisco de la Cuesta lived here." "We were eight or ten years old." "Where is Francisco now?" "Does he remember our games?" "I try to and I can't." "When we were at school, the priests were always right." "They had the power then." "I hadn't done anything, but it was all the same." "I understood then, for the first time, the relationship between Justice and Power." "Armando's father was a freethinker." "Every week he'd give him a peso so he could go to a whorehouse." "He took me for the first time." "To a fat woman who charged 50 cents." "He told her to be nice to me." "But I couldn't do anything with her." "I had to find another." "After that I went every week." "All of a sudden I discovered that Elena didn't thinkthe way I did." "I had expected more from her." "I thought she was more complex and interesting." "I always try to live like a European." "And Elena makes me feel underdeveloped at every step." "I also tried to change Elena." "And like Laura, she doesn't understand." "she had another world in her head, very different from mine." "she doesn't see me." "A TROPICAL ADVENTURE." "This gazelle was shot by Hemingway during his last trip to Africa in 1953." "he made that trip with Mary, his fourth wife." "This is one of the fastest gazelles in Africa." "Besides being very fast, it's constantly jumping." "He said he killed so as not to kill himself." "But in the end he couldn't resist the temptation." "We know Hemingway made several trips to spain as a war correspondent." "And after that, he joined the International Brigade..." "Is this where Mr. Way used to live?" "I don't see anything so special." "Books and dead animals." "Just like the American house in Preston." "The same furniture and the same American smell." "What is an American smell?" "I don't know." "You feel it." "Which do you like best, the smell of the Russians or of the Americans?" "Leave me alone." "I don't know anything about politics." "The tropics." "That's what backward countries are for:" "to kill animals, to fish and to sunbathe." "There you have her:" "the beautiful Cuban señorita." "I don't think I'd ever be afraid of anything again, Macomber said to Wilson." ""something happened inside me when we saw the buffalo for the first time." "Like a dam bursting." "It was pure excitement." "As if running after a buffalo was enough to Conquer fear." "Anyway, there are no buffaloes in Cuba." "I'm an idiot." "He conquered the fear of death but he couldn't stand the fear of life, of time, of a world that was beginning to get too large." "Why did you leave?" "You were amusing yourself." " Jealousy." " oh, please!" " Does it bother you?" " No, it doesn't." " You don't care." " About what?" "Me." " You're the one who doesn't care." " About what?" "You don't care about anything." "This is Hemingway's private study." "He could always be found working in front of this old typewriter." "He never sat down to write, nor did he wear shoes." "He'd get up very early and would work until eleven or eleven-thirty." "Very few people could come into this room" "And I was amongst them." "I would walk very quietly." "The rest of the day Hemingway would spend his time." "His name is Rene Villarreal." "Hemingway found him when he was a little boy playing in the streets of san Francisco de Paula." "I read that somewhere." "He molded him to his needs." "The faithful servant and the great lord." "The colonialist and Gunga Din." "Hemingway must've been unbearable." "This was his refuge, his tower, his island in the tropics." "Boots for hunting in Africa, American furniture, spanish photographs, magazines and books in English, a bull-fight poster." "Cuba never really interested him." "Here he could find refuge, entertain his friends, write in English and fish in the Gulf stream." "... Mary, Hemingway's fourth wife, had it built in mid-1947." "Many journalists and people who wanted to see Hemingway used to come at that time to interview him." "They never left him in peace to write in this room." "she thought that by building that study he would be able to isolate himself." "she had ten windows put in so that the air could circulate and he could enjoy." "Sergio!" "Sergio!" "Hey, wait!" "Have you seen a gentleman that was in there with me?" "Sergio!" "Wait a minute!" "round TABLE." "LITERATUREAND UNDERDEVELoPMENT" "Culture, in an underdeveloped country, is the sometimes painful and costly operation by which people become conscious of their ability to change their social life, to write their own history, and to choose the best of their traditions to make them bear fruit" "through the conditions created by the struggle for national liberation." "We were just a few steps away from the negro cooks and servants at the school." "I discovered I was a spy, a derogatory term used in order to look down on Latin-Americans." "I know nowthat though I look white, Anglo-saxon and protestant, I really am a southern negro." "All Latin-Americans are negroes, discriminated against, oppressed, rejected, ignored, strangers in this new swindle which has pretensions of universality." "The American way of life, the great white dream of the United states." "Now it's the devil's advocate's turn, he who piles doubt upon doubt and who asks you: but don'tyou, guys, realize that the words you are using underdevelopment, underdevelopment are sick, or at least, sickly?" "Don'tyou realize that these words might be language-traps, accomplices of an already wasted culture, a stratagem, a linguistic alibi, a linguistic-ideological arrangement, that might lead us to the mental peace of formulas?" "It is useless to flee from the linguistic continents of underdevelopment and forget that the basic contradiction of our times is not the contradiction between North American imperialism and the three underdeveloped continents, but the contradiction between the impetuous development of the productive forces of all the world" "and the forms and the production relations of capitalism, between the socialist revolution and the capitalist system in its last imperialistic phase." "For example, you speak of the basic contradiction between the proletariat and capitalism." "I believe that whatyou have said is entirely abstract." "The basic contradictions are verified in reality and when the basic contradiction is embodied, it is transmitted into war." "For me, at this moment, the basic contradiction is not to be found between the European proletariats and capitalists, but in an area where the war embodies, materializes, and shows what the basic contradiction is, in other words, Viet-Nam." "This discussion is based only on the fact that if the basic contradiction is the one or the other." "on a level derived exclusively from Marxist scholastics, I do agree with you, but in the concrete embodiment I see it as something else." "What are you doing up there with that cigar?" "You must feel pretty important, here you don't have much competition." "outside of Cuba you'd be a nobody." "But here, you're well situated." "Who's seen you, and who can see you now, Edmundo Doesnes?" "Your name, please?" "Jack Gelber." "Why is it that if the Cuban Revolution is a total revolution, they have to resort to an archaicform of discussion such as a round table?" "Why doesn't it develop a more revolutionary way to reach a whole audience like this?" "I don't understand." "The American was right." "Words devour words and they leave you in the clouds." "A thousand miles away." "How does one get rid of underdevelopment?" "It marks everything." "Everything." "What are you doing down there, Sergio?" "What does all this mean?" "You have nothing to do with them." "You're alone." "In underdevelopment nothing has continuity, everything is forgotten." "People aren't consistent." "Butyou remember many things, you remember too much." "Where's your family, your work, your wife?" "You're nothing, you're dead." "Now begins, Sergio, your final destruction." "Every time my old lady writes it's the same thing." "she knows I don't chew gum and that I use an electric shaver." "The only thing I've asked her for are books and magazines." "I can't read her handwriting." "They're crazy." "We don't understand each other." "Hanna is the best thing that has ever happened to me." "Running away from Hitler, they landed in Cuba." "Hanna was more mature, more of a woman than the underdeveloped girls here." "How long were we together?" "I can't remember." "It's the best thing that has ever happened to me." "Why did I let her go?" "Why didn't I run after her?" "When she left for New York with her parents, we were going to get married." "We didn't believe in formalities but we thought it would be best." "We had plans." "I was going to go to New York, make my life with her." "I wanted to be a writer and she believed in me." "she believed in me." "she was going to help me." "Then my father gave me a furniture store." "I buried myself behind a desk." "I worked like mad for two years." ""Hanna, darling, I can't leave now." "Please understand." "I don't want to go there with empty hands..."" "Hanna darling, one day it was too late." "I'll always look for you." "Where are you now?" "What do you think of me now?" "Wait, stop, stop right here." "Sergio!" "Sergio!" "Sergio!" " Head of the family. surname...?" " Carmona." " second surname?" " Bendoiro." " Name?" " Sergio." "occupation?" " None." " You don't work?" " No, I don't." " How do you live?" " From the rent of several apartments." " And ex-landlord..." " Age?" "38 years old." " Total income?" "600 pesos." "Income from other members of the family?" "I live alone." " Do you pay the Urban Reform?" " No." " The last month you paid?" " I've never paid anything." "General occupation:" "owner, acquirer, illegal usage..." "No, no, owner." " Any embargo?" " No." "Approximately how many square meters?" " Imagine." " More or less." " Well, it's just that..." " It's pretty big." " Yes." " shall we say 100 or 200?" "Would you like to measure it?" "No, I'll take your word." "Let's say 300." "If that's not right, we'll change it afterwards." " Type of construction: bricks..." " Yes, I think so." "It's one apartment." "How many rooms?" "one bedroom and a study." " servant's quarters?" " Two." " How many toilets?" " Five." " How many bathrooms?" " Three." "Elevators?" "Two." "state of upkeep?" "Good." "sign here..." "And what's all this for?" "We're justverifying." " Yes, but..." " Don't worry, if there's anything wrong we'll letyou know." "Hey, wait!" "You can't turn there..." " We're going two more blocks..." " Go straight ahead." "I'll get off here." "In the midst of all this I'm living off rents." "I still have 13..." "no, 12, 11 years to collect." "It's been two years since they took away my apartment house." "Everything comes to me either to early or too late." "Before, I might've been able to understand what was going on here." "Now, I can't." "I'm 38 years old and I'm already an old man." "I don't feel wiser or more mature." "Rotten away but more stupid." "Like a piece of rotten fruit." "Like refuse." "It might have something to do with the tropics." "Here everything matures and rots easily." "Nothing endures." "I'm an old man already." "I've been in whore houses since I was 13." "When I was 15, I thought I was a genius." "At 25, I owned an elegant store." "Then Laura..." "My life is like a monstrous vegetable with large leaves and no fruit." "I think I affect a certain dignity." "Are you Sergio?" " Yes, I am." " I'm Elena's brother." "Is she sick?" "she's never sick." "It's something else. she says you abused her." "What?" " It isn't like that..." " I don't know if it's like that" "You've ruined her and that's got to be fixed." " Well, I don't know what story she may have told you." "No, it's not a story." "This is not something that can be paid for with dresses." "But please... she says you promised to marry her." " That I promised?" " And then you abused her..." " It isn't like that." " I don't know if it is or not!" "Elena would do anything." "I should've known that." "I didn't want any trouble with the police." "I was willing to marry her if she wanted." "I was afraid." "Tell him whatyou told mother." " You deceived me." " What?" "You deceived me." "Why?" "You said you were going to give me some of your wife's dresses and then you abused me." "If you say so..." "But you know it isn't true." "Besides, you're not a virgin." "You are being disrespectful!" "Look." "I know my sister's no whore, damn it!" "How could I get mixed up in all this?" "I resigned myself." "I was going to let myself be dragged through to the end." "I was afraid." "Girls must go to the altar as virgins!" "That's the greatest treasure a woman can give in marriage." "Now women are liberated." "Don't start talking as if you were a revolutionary because you're not!" " If you don't marry her, I'll kill you..." " Keep quiet!" "What?" "If I marry her it's because I want to." "You're not going to force me into it!" " Nobody can make fun of my daughter!" " Be quiet!" "Why didn'tyou want to see me?" "Did you want to get rid of me?" "It isn't that." "I'll marry you." "I've got to think." "Think what?" "I've got to get the permit, haven't I?" "I've got to get my divorce papers." " You're divorced?" " Yes, I'm divorced." " You'll have to marry her!" " Come on, Dad, will you be quiet now!" "Why did you bring him?" "That night she came home late." " You needn't have brought him." " she told me." "she came home with her panties stained with blood..." "That's not true!" "Will you stop it now?" "You're going to screw it all" "Why the hell did you come in the first place?" "Hey, come on, be quiet!" "Hey, be quiet!" "Knock it off!" "And you, stop it now!" "I was sure she wasn't a virgin." "Poor devils!" "What could they get out of all this?" " Do you have anything to explain?" " It isn't true." "I've had relations with her, but they were voluntary" "There was no abuse and certainly no rape." "All that's a lie." "sign here, Sergio." "The accused, Sergio Carmona Bendoiro, planned to seduce Elena Josefa Dorado, aged sixteen, and to that effect took her to his apartment located on Línea, Vedado, where he abused her virginity though he knewthe said young girl was mentally disturbed" "and therefore incapable of resisting." " Do you have anything to say?" " Yes." "Answer the prosecutor's questions." "Do you know Miss Elena Josefa Dorado?" "Yes." " Answer the attorney." " Yes." " Yes, sir." " sorry." "Yes, sir." " Where did you meet her?" " on 23rd street, in Vedado." "Is it true thatyou took her to your apartment and had sexual intercourse with her?" "Yes." "Tell me, before the night in question, did the plaintiff confess to you whether she'd had sexual intercourse with another man?" "No, never." "I was the only one who spoke with some coherence." "That finished me." "They treated me as if I had cheated some "unfortunate common person"." "Yes, also to give me some dresses he offered me." "Those that belonged to his wife who had left for the states." "Now, everything is "the people"." "Before, I would've been the respectable one and they the damned guilty ones." "I thought I was lost." "You wretched swine..." "Degenerate..." "Did you threaten Sergio's life?" "Yes, if he didn't marry her." " You threatened him?" " Yes, sir." "What did Sergio say?" "He said that he would get the permit but in the end he didn't marry her." "When was Elena taken to the doctor?" "I don't know exactly." "My mother says she took her some months before all this happened." " Do you know what the doctor said?" " No." "And the results of the tests...?" "Then came the verdict." "The accused, Sergio Carmona Bendoiro, invited Elena Josefa Dorado, aged 17, for a walk on the evening of January 25th, 1962, and during said walk, they went to the home of the accused located on Línea street, where they had sexual intercourse." "According to tests performed, there is no proof that Elena Josefa Dorado shows any signs of mental disorder nor that she was insane or unconscious at that time." "secondly: the district-attorney has sustained his conclusions as definite and they have been duly recorded in folios 6 and 7." "Thirdly: the defense sustained as definite its conclusions in which it concretely denied every charge pressed by the district-attorney, pleaded the acquittal of the accused and the exemption from court costs." "Lastly:" "in the facts proved as true there are no grounds to sustain the crime of rape as charged by the district-attorney." "Due to the above and executing articles 142, 240, 741and 742 of the social Defense Code and the Criminal Prosecution Law, we render the following verdict:" "we hereby absolve the accused of the crime of rape as charged by the district-attorney." "It was a happy ending, as they say." "For once, justice triumphed." "But was it really like that?" "There is something that leaves me in a bad position." "I've seen too much to be innocent." "They have too much darkness inside their heads to be guilty." "I hope they haven't shut her up." "more planes AND battleships To florida" "KENNEDY suddenly returns TO washington" "young MOTHER gives BIRTH To TRIPLETs" "dog WITH TWO hearts" "TRADE unions compete IN profits" "BULLETIN-BOARD MATERIAL." "POST IT WHEREYOU WORK." "CUTOUT AND PASTE" "HOW To PREVENT tetanus" "The person may get contaminated when any wound infected with the tetanus bacillus." "Most cases are lethal." "Vaccination is the only safe protection." "words OF MAO TsETUNG" "Trying to solve ideological problems and the problem of what is right or wrong through administrative regulations or by repressive methods is not only useless but also harmful." "... "as well as for the customers of the tore downstairs, and also for the tenants"," "Why don't they repair the balcony where I live?" "I've made a report to the corresponding Urban Reform office seven times, that a piece fell off and the rest is all loose" "As I don't have the means or tools to solve the problem, I'd like to know what I can do"." "Gilberto Calzadilla 255 Manrique st." "To work cheerfully and... sALAMÓN" "she brought me a stack of photographs." "They were taken when she was baptized." "It wasn't like I thought it would be." "It's nothing." "The clothes didn't cling to her body." "There were lots of people." "I hadn't thought about them." "october 22nd, 1962" "KENNEDYsPEAKS" "... a number of sites for offensive missiles are being prepared on that oppressed island." "... an additional site, notyet completed, will clearly be designed for intermediate-range ballistic missiles, capable of striking most of the major cities in the Western Hemisphere ranging as far north as Hudson's Bay, Canada, and as far south as Lima, Peru." "In addition, jet bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons are being uncrated and assembled in Cuba and necessary air bases are being prepared to halt this offensive build-up, a strict quarantine on all military equipment and its shipment to Cuba is being initiated." "If these aggressive military preparations continue, thus increasing the threat to the Hemisphere, further action will be justified." "I have directed the Armed Forces to prepare for any eventuality." "What's all this for?" "What are they going to get out of it?" "And if it all should start right now?" "It's no use pretesting." "I'll die like the rest." "This island is a trap." "We're very small, and too poor." "It's an expensive dignity." "We definitely reject any intention of inquiry, any intention of inspecting our country." "Nobody inspects our country." "We know what we are doing and we know howto defend our integrity and we know howto defend our independence." "They threaten us by saying we'll be nuclear targets." "That doesn't scare us." "We have to know howto live during the age we happen to live in, with the dignity to know howto live," "Everybody, every man and woman, young and old, are all one in this hour of danger, and it is the same for all of us, revolutionaries and patriots, and victory shall be for all." "Homeland or death!" "We shall prevail!" "Assistant Director:" "spot Light:" "Assistant Producer:" "script:" ""Moral Burguesa y Revolución"" "Producer:" "sound:" "Music Recording:" "set:" "Make-up:" "Key-grip:" "Wardrobe:" "Lighting:" "set designer:" "Head of Construction:" "still Camera operator:" "Photos:" "Titles:" "special Animation:" "Visual and sound Effects:" "THE END"