El Juego de Cuba (2001)

El Juego de Cuba plot

For Cubans, baseball is more than a sport. From the moment of its introduction, in the mid-nineteenth century, the sport had already had a political charge: playing American baseball was a subversive, anti-Spanish act. But even for the next century and a half, baseball was closely intertwined with political events. It was not until 1999 that the American team returned to Cuba after forty years, so that the Cuban and American flags apparently fluttered side by side in the stadium. The film offers a reconstruction of the last forty years, not only on the basis of many archive images, such as of Cuban naval ships during Independence Day, but especially through interviews with a large number of former players. Many have preserved the grainy photos of them as young athletes, from the days when they still harbored illusions and were paid four pesos for a game. Forty years later, they look back at how baseball held out during turbulent political developments...

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