Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel

Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel is the first feature length documentary of the Swiss director Christian Frei. It had his premiere at the Swiss film festival Visions du Rel. The film is a portrait of Miriam Martnez and her father, the Cuban revolutionary Ricardo Martnez. Daughter and father are torn between the desire to emigrate to the United States and the faith in the revolutionary ideas.

Christian Frei set out with his camera to explore the current situation in Cuba, the result being a documentary that is sustained by powerful images, that testifies to technical skill, a professional way of dealing with the material and, most importantly, a carefully deduced and clear message the two protagonists, Ricardo and Miriam, reflect the tension between a revolution that has already turned into history and the present that in fact seems to be taking place elsewhere.The Swiss film critic Norbert Creutz has estimated the objectivity and the formal quality of the film ........

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