Cuban Report.

Cuban Report. , 1977 (22:37)

Annotation: About the present days of Cuba, Soviet-Cuban relations, friendship and cooperation.

Film description: Landscapes of Cuba: the sea, palm trees. Students boarding school them. Lenin in the classroom, during a basketball game. Castro plays with children in basketball on the playground. Students at the ballet school classes in ballet class led by GS Ulanova. Production processes at the metallurgical plant. José Martí, the construction of the plant reed-propelled harvesters, manufacturing processes at the plant of chemical fertilizers, the development of nickel ore in large fields. Cleaning of sugar cane. Sheep, cattle farms of Cuba. Collection of strawberries, bananas, pineapples, oranges. Fishing fisherman on Cuba. Types of the capital of Cuba - Havana: streets, buildings, public streets, in cafes. Military parade in Havana. Speech by Raul Castro. Meeting of the National Assembly. Stay LI Brezhnev in Cuba. Medical care of the Cuban population. The film features newsreels, captured the revolutionary events in Cuba, the fall of the Batista regime.

Source description 1: View of Cuba: coast of the sea, palm-trees, sunset
Armed people going in water (pageant of grounding of revolutionists in 1956 form “Granma” yacht)
People firing
Fields, bunch of horses
Ocean swash
A bloomy brunch of tree
Flowers and palm-trees
Network announcer making speech (simultaneously in Spanish)
Children running, applauding, laughing, dancing, playing on the playground etc.
Newsreel of the 1950-s
Children of the paupers (before the Cuban revolution)
Boarding-school named after Lenin (inside and outside), pupils of different ages in the corridor.
Panorama of Educational park.
Swimming pool.
F.Castro, General secretary of central committee of Cuban communist party, playing basketball with children, talking to them.
Industrial training. Women at work.
Studies at ballet class.
Soviet ballet dancer Galina Ulanova talking to Cuban ballet dancer Alicia Alonso.
Young Cuban workers going through.
A metallurgical factory named after Jose Marti
Truck loaded with metal tubes driving through.
Fusion of the metal
Nikolay Kireev form the city of Chelabinsk shares his experience with Cuban worker.
Olgin. Building of factory constructing reed-cleaning machines (with help of USSR)
Yu..A.Frumson – head engineer, the head of group of soviet specialists – talking to other specialists.
Chemistry fertilizers plant, built with the assistance of the Soviet Union
The foreman Manuel Rosso talking to a Soviet specialist in the territory of the plant
Workers at work
The development of a deposit of nickel ore in career, drivers going into the trucks
Transporter with ore.
Dredge and other machines working
Trucks driving through
Tractors standing
Views of the mountains, palm-trees, bunches of animals.
Horseman going.
A panorama of leaves of sugar cane.
Harvesting of shugar cane.
Newsreel
Peasants brandishing machetes
Delivery of orders for ground.
Peasants raise hands with machetes
Harvesting of sugar cane by self-propelled harvester, made by soviet-Cuban specialists.

Source description 2: A Cuban landscape
Sheep grazing on.
Palm-trees, rainbow
Livestock center
Teenagers cultivating ground
Oranges and other exotic fruits, harvesting of bananas, pouring strawberry, harvesting of pineapples
Crawfish, fish and other seafood pouring out from boxes and nets. Fishermen at work
Work at the docks
Cargo goes into the refrigerator.
A panorama of Havana
People on the streets.
Monument to Jose Marti on the revolution square. People near the monument
Anniversary of the grounding from legendary yacht“Granma”. Children at the parade.
Carrying model of the yacht “Granma”
Horsemen with ensigns passing through. “Mambi’s cavalry”
Militia (men and women), infantry, marines and other forces.
Newsreel of 1961
US invaders defeat at the Playa Giron. Men with rifles, Fidel Castro and other revoltionists, pacing captives.
First deputy of prime minister of revolutionary government and minister of armed forces of Cuba Raul Castro making speech.
Cubans and foreign guests listening
Passage of military hardware, tanks, rocket launchers
Launch of a rocket, motor boat in the sea, rockets flying, pilot moving, planes on the airdrome.
Passing of the planes at the parade.
Building of national assembly
F.Castro and other members of presidium listening
Newsreel of the 1960-s
Assault of the Monkada barracks. Dead bodies lying. Armed people passing
Young Fidel Castro, marchers in the street, policemen dispersing demonstration with hoses of water.
Revolutionists: F.Castro Che Guevara, Raul Castro, Cienfuegos
Entrance of revolutionists to Havana. People greeting
F.Castro greets people.
Deputies of the Assembly speaking and voting.
Fidel Castro making speech
Visit of the, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, in 1974. poster with text: “Viva Cuban-soviet friendship!”
Cubans greet Leonid Brezhnev and F.Castro.
Leonid Brezhnev on the tribune announces: “Viva Cuba!”

Source description 3: A television station.
A network announcer speaking
Leonid Brezhnev making a speech on the screen of the TV.
Leonid Brezhnev talking to Fidel Castro, giving him a photo (in Moscow?).
The waving flags of the USSR and Cuba.
Faces of Cubans of different age.
People going to work.
A hospital. People near the building.
People near the ambulance.
Medical studies of a doctor in the Havana University.
An X-ray apparatus.
Coast of the ocean. Splashy waves, beach.
A park with a pond, water-nymphs.
Dancing people
Little houses – rest houses.
Boys riding horses.
A Waterfall
Crocodiles in the water
People on the boat in the national park.
Flowers in the park
People in a café
Modern houses
Constructing of houses.
Newsreel.
Old huts, demolition of old houses.
Bulldozer working
Streets of Havana
A panorama of Havana.

Directors: Monglovskiy U.

Operators: Akkuratov E., Grezin V.

Script writers: Samoylov E.

Announcer: Suslov E.