A short reflexive documentary about the search and assassination of Fructuoso Rodríguez a revolutionary and communist student leader by supporters of Batista’s Dictatorship. Rodríguez became the leader of the Federación Estudiantil Universitaria, a group of communist students at Universidad de La Habana who directly opposed Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship in Cuba during the 1950s, after the previous’ leader Jose José Antonio Echeverría assassination. In the documentary, the surviving members of the FEU and Rodriguez’s friends detail the events that lead to his Assassination, focusing on his last 38 days of life soon after becoming the leader of the FEU.
Type: DocumentaryLength: 25 minutes
Year: 2012
Audio Language: Spanish
Subtitles: None
Themes: Biography, Cuba, History, Politics/Human Rights, Social Issues, Social Movements/Resistance
Director(s): Rosario Alfonso Parodi and Yohan Madrigal
