De cierta manera

English title: One Way or Another

German title: In gewisser Hinsicht

Director: Sara Gomez    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Sara Gómez, * November 8, 1942 in Havanna, Cuba; † June 2, 1974, ibid., was a filmmaker and sript writer. Brought up in a middle-class black family, she studied literature, piano and Afro-Cuban ethnography. She worked as a journalist before joining the newly-formed Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) in 1961, where she subsequently served as assistant director to Jorge Fraga and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, as well as to the visiting French director Agnes Varda. One of only two black filmmakers at ICAIC at the time, and for several years its only woman director, Gómez made a series of documentary shorts on assigned topics before directing her first feature "De cierta manera". She died before she could complete the film.

Country: Cuba

Year: 1974

Synopsis: DE CIERTA MANERA, a documentary-style feature film, focuses on the difficult transformation process of several members of Cuba's "fringe population". The main figure is a female teacher and her relationship to a worker. As a pedagogue, she has great difficulties with a boy living in complicated family circumstances. Her boyfriend, a typical macho, does not notice her distress. "The masterpiece of the 1970s. Sara Gómez could not prove her unusual talent again. She died at the age of 30, before the film was completed." (Peter B. Schumann)

Language: Spanish, English

Forum participation year: 1977

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