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Influencé par la vie et l’oeuvre de l’écrivain cubain et homosexuel Reinaldo Arens, le réalisateur allemand Christian Liffers nous fait pénétrer dans le monde secret des homosexuels cubains.
Six hommes nous parlent de leur quotidien, de leurs joies, de leurs fantasmes mais aussi de leur souffrance. Ils nous font partager leur vécu au sein d’une société encore très machiste. Ce documentaire est un voyage passionnant, loin des clichés habituels sur Cuba.
Synopsys in English
The Cuban government has admitted having made mistakes in the past concerning the way that homosexuality was dealt with. But even though the government has been postulating a more liberal way of dealing with homosexuality, the confrontation with social discrimination and the arbitrariness of the police is part of everyday life for homosexuals in Cuba.
The director Christian Liffers travels to Cuba with poems and prose texts of the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas in his luggage. Texts, which describe the desire for love, sexual freedom and the proud and unbending attitude in the fight against discrimination. Are these desires and attitudes still to be found in Cuba ? Poems and prose texts are the reference points for the protagonists and their personal stories of present-day Cuba, which are always the centre of attention. Six men with different backgrounds and of different ages describe their life, afflictions, desires, longings and joys in Cuba. They have some things in common : homosexuality (with the exception of Isabel, the transsexual) and the daily social exclusion on the part of the Cuban “Machismo-society” and the Cuban government. However they differ heavily concerning their social status and their opinions of the topic.
Each of the six men profiled is introduced reading passages from Reinaldo Arenas, who acts as an invisible guide to the Cuban mentality and a tragic godfather of gay sensibilities. Liffers chooses his protags carefully, each representing a different social class or aspect of the scene — intellectual, drag queen, artist, transsexual. …
Christian Liffers
Christian Liffers a étudié la mise en scène théatrale à Hambourg avant de mettre en scène de nombreuses pièces de théatre en Allemagne. Il a aussi travaillé comme journaliste pendant dix ans, en particulier pour la chaîne de télévision allemande ZDF, depuis 2001.
