The Cuban director Manuel Herrera Reyes denounced this Friday that state television censored several scenes from his film Girón in the cinematic space In a certain way, which is broadcast on Thursdays by the Educational Channel in alliance with the Cuban Institute of the Cinematographic Industry (ICAIC).
“The exhibited version of my film Girón in the program In a certain way it’s not my movie. A hidden hand sliced off several sequences damaging artistic purposes that made her an important work within Cuban cinema“Herrera said in Facebook.
“No one consulted me. No one asked for my authorization as required by copyright law. My rights to the work have been violated,” he said.
“I am disappointed by this sample of neo-Stalinism that we thought disappeared and that we must fight. What separates us from Alice in wonderland? What is that called? Cynicism. 47 years after its release, change history! I am sure that if this were done by the Americans, we would not hesitate to say that it is cynical and shameless, “he said.
The documentary Girón it was released in 1974. Herrera recounted “the invasion of Cuba by Playa Girón through interviews with combatants, newscasts and film reconstructions.”
According to the magazine Cubacine, the documentary Girón aired this Thursday in In a certain way next to the animated short Remember Girón, directed in 1961 by Jesús de Armas. The program intended “celebrate” el VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, which is held in Havana from this Friday to Monday and coincides with 60 years of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Herrera shared also the following sentence: “It is a bad service that is rendered to the peoples when it is hidden from them, due to childish fears or fright before the probable consequences, the historical facts. Everything can be explained, everything in its context can be understood, analyzed, justly valued “.
The official journalist Joel del Río said that “Cuban television has to stop with a policy of censorship that nobody understands or explains. It is a policy as absurd as it is insulting. They cut because they feel omnipotent behind their biased decisions. ”
The Cuban state television had to explain this week the censorship of a kiss between two women from the Brazilian soap opera broadcast on Cubavisión.
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