在这部另一个克里斯托瓦尔奇幻/音乐片中,When Findel Castro invited Armand Gatti to Cuba for the shooting of a movie, the director introduced himself to the “welcoming committee” as someone who came “to win the war against Spain with his camera.” Defying all expectations and challenging the limits of unconditional freedom, Gatti submitted a surreal criticism towards the prevailing regime, with the hero being a convict who organizes a small uprising and eventually confronts a dictator. In an irony of History, the movie was filmed during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The dictator Anastasio rules with an iron fist backed by business-men making deals and speeches about building canals, completely disconnected from the chaos amongst the population. Anastasio is rumored to have died after an incident with a mirror and a violent confrontation after literally crowing as a cock amongst his chicken followers. The afterlife is shown as a casino where Anastasio strong-arms his way into heaven. Divination is used to find the next dictator, and a sailor and his black, peasant sidekick find themselves attempting to start a revolution with an organ, dragging it through the countryside, as the movie explores the country, culture and music. They attempt to trade with a flattened poster of a traditional family woman as well as a younger shrew, and encounter innocence in the form of a virgin. The war escalates into mythical proportions between heaven and hell in astonishing surreal sets involving dinosaur bones, stagy cages, huge pinball games and a bullfighting ...
