Name: Compañeras and Compañeros
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1970

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

Jan 1970

Premiere Information

New York opening: 3 Dec 1970

Production Company

Monument Film Corp.

Distribution Company

New Yorker Films

Country

United States

Synopsis

The continued spirit of the Cuban revolution is evidenced in the activities and viewpoints of members of five groups of Cuban youth: soldiers from various battalions who are joined in a champion brigade to cut a quota of sugar cane in Oriente province for the 1970 harvest; the "Orientadores," who assist peasants in isolated rural and mountainous regions of Pinar del Río province, aiding them in building schools, hospitals, and other essential communal facilities and encouraging them to work collectively; a crew of young women from underprivileged backgrounds who have volunteered to develop the agriculture of the province of Camagüey, at the same time attending classes; a group of engineering students working to double the productivity of a sugar mill in Oriente province; and students selected from each province to study the sciences at a specialized boarding school near Havana, sharing responsibility for the operation of the school with their teachers. The young people discuss their backgrounds, their emergence and functions in a revolutionary society, their revolutionary, third world consciousness, their theories on Latin American revolution and guerrilla warfare, their economy, their nation's future, and their commitment to the development of the "New Man" envisaged by "Che" Guevara.