ALICIA AM ORT DER WUNDER (2nd American Film Festival, 1993)

1991, Cuba
ALICIA EN EL PUEBLO DE MARAVILLAS

Daniel Díaz Torres

A cultural assignment leads theater scholar Alicia to the town of Maravillas (Wonder), which turns out to rival Lewis Carrol's Wonderland in its absurdity. The residents of the gloomy community behave exceedingly strangely, and Alicia experiences one bizarre situation after another until the suspicion forms in her that Satan's lunatic asylum is responsible for the grotesque conditions. Daniel Diaz-Forres - himself a supporter of the revolution - humorously criticizes the aberrations and aberrations of the revolution in Cuba with this real satire. A cultural assignment leads the drama expert Alicia to Maravillas (Wonders), a village which turns out to match Lewis Carrol`s Wonderland in its absurdity. The inhabitants of the obscure township are acting alarmingly strange and Alicia experiences one bizarre situation after another, until she comes to suspect that the mental asylum Satan is responsible for the weird on-goings. Through this real-life satire Daniel Díaz Torres - himself an advocate of the revolution - levels criticism at the aberrations and the maldevelopments of the Cuban revolution.

ALICIA EN EL PUEBLO DE MARAVILLAS
Section: Feature Film Competition
Country: Cuba
Director: Daniel Díaz Torres
Language: spanisch OmU
Running time: 93min

Kuba 1991; Regie: Daniel Díaz Torres; Buch: Grupo Nos-y-otros unter der Leitung von Eduardo del Llano, Daniel Díaz Torres, Jesús Díaz; Kamera: Raúl Perez Ureta; DarstellerInnen: Beatriz Valdez, Thais Valdez, Reinaldo Miravalles, Alberto Pujols, Carlos Cruz, u.a.; (35mm, 1:1,66; Farbe; 93min; spanische ORIGINALFASSUNG MIT DEUTSCHEN UNTERTITELN).