A historical epic, cast in the style of a realistic narrative with symbolic overtones, about runaway slaves and their hunters in the mid-nineteenth century, which weaves an analysis of the factional divisions between coffee and sugar interests, plantation owners and smallholders, around the drama of the Rancheador searching for the mythical rebel slave leader, Mother Manchora.
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Cast
21 people
Olivia Belizaires
Also in
A Cuban Fight Against Demons
Un día en el solar
Samuel Claxton
Known for
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Reynaldo Miravalles
Francisco Estévez
Also in
The Twelve Chairs
Tables Turned
Sergio San Pedro
Sergio Giral
Daniel Jordan
Also in
Demonsoul
Adolfo Llauradó
Estévez's Second
Also in
The First Charge of the Machete
Lucía
Orlando Rojas
Jorge Sotolongo
Omar Valdés
Lucas Villegas
Known for
Memories of Underdevelopment
Cirilo Villaverde
Salvador Wood
Morales
Known for
I Am Cuba
Death of a Bureaucrat
Sergio Giral Director
First release March 1, 1978
Languages
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Italy · March 1, 1978
Cuba · January 2, 1979
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Denmark
March 24, 1982 · Cuban Film Week
Germany
March 2, 1979
Hungary
January 11, 1979
Portugal
September 10, 1984 · Figueira da Foz Film Festival
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