Los Sobrevivientes / The Survivors

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea I Cuba 1979 I 2h10m I Spanish with English subtitles

The Survivors follows a bourgeois family living in the Cuban countryside who decide to seal their mansion off from the world and the rising 1959 revolution. They’ve stockpiled food and hope to pass the time until the new government is overthrown. But as the years pass, the family begins to regress through increasingly primitive forms of social order: capitalism, feudalism, slavery - and worse. A film highly relevant for today.

Read this fascinating article by HGFF Writer Brian Beadie about the film and about Director Tomas Alea here.