Hello Cubans
1963 · 30 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 1,979 VOTES · DIR. Agnès Varda
Overview
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island.
Dialogue Timeline — 330 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:27 HI THERE, CUBANOS
00:02:41 Visitors are surprised by how Cuba's moving
00:03:33 and the more socialist color.
00:04:35 ...likes air and freedom.
00:05:31 A mason foreman.
00:06:24 ...villages in westerns...
00:07:06 and hirsute maquisard.
00:07:53 anyone intelligent understands them. It's not indoctrination.
00:08:50 He works very efficiently alongside Fidel on a daily basis.
00:10:53 The Cuban woman has African pride
00:11:41 their Catholicism
00:12:47 There are appeals for volunteers on the radio and in songs
00:14:48 These scholars - many of them peasants - live
00:15:28 He comes to the port
00:16:13 These 82 men, trained for months, had to stand virtually upright.
00:16:59 Among them, Raul Castro
00:17:37 On it was written: "The rumba's coming".
00:19:29 Here's a religious leader.
00:20:20 Roberto Retamar, precious, secretive, very spiritual.
00:21:36 Here's Rene Portocarrero
00:22:29 and white stockings.
00:24:00 or in their Sunday best -
00:24:51 I wanted to shoot a film here, but the ICAIC already has.
04:00:04 They hadn't anticipated
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed330
Dialogue density11.0 lines / min
First line00:00:27
Final line04:00:04
Production Record
DirectorAgnès Varda
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes1,979