The Survivors
Jan 06 1979
•2h 10m
•Drama, Comedy
A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of political order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
Cast
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Enrique Santisteban
Sebastián Orozco
Juanita Caldevilla
Doña Lola
Germán Pinelli
Pascual Orozco
Ana Viñas
Fina Orozco
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