EL CASO PADILLA

DOCUMENTARY
CUBA, SPAIN · 2022
LANGUAGES: SPANISH, FRENCH, ENGLISH
COLOR · 78 MIN.

Havana, spring of 1971: the poet Heberto Padilla has just been released and appears at the Cuban writers' union, where he intones a "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself a counterrevolutionary agent and accuses many of his colleagues present there of complicity, among them, his wife. A month ago, his arrest on charges of threatening the security of the Cuban state mobilized the intellectual vanguard of the entire world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro demanding the freedom of the poet, whose only sin was to dissent through his poetic work.