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About the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Cuba

> The third story describes the suppression of rebellious students led by a character named Enrique at Havana University (featuring one of the longest camera shots). Enrique is frustrated with the small efforts of the group and wants to do something drastic. He goes off on his own planning on assassinating the chief of police, however when he gets him in his sights, he sees that the police chief is surrounded by his young children, and Enrique cannot bring himself to pull the trigger. While he is away, his fellow revolutionaries are printing flyers. They are infiltrated by police officers who arrest them. One of the revolutionaries begins throwing flyers out to the crowd below only to be shot by one of the police officers. Later on, Enrique is leading a protest at the university. More police are there to break up the crowd with fire hoses. Enrique is shot after the demonstration becomes a riot. At the end, his body is carried through the streets; he has become a martyr to his cause.

Uhh... wouldn't Cuba arrest and / or execute a capitalist university student protesting the communist government? Doesn't seem very accurate

Year 1964, don't you think that it would be a communist student protesting against exploitative US-backed regime?

You got it reversed, this is pre revolution, the student is the Marxist hero

This is set in pre-communist Cuba, under the dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Well... where to begin?

* it's a 1964 movie

* it's set in pre-revolutionary times

* the students are arrested and/or shot, respectively

* the students aren't capitalists

* there were widespread protests, just a few months ago, and not everyone was arrested

And it was made by Mikhail Kalatozov, the famous Soviet director. Obviously the point of the movie was to support Castro's regime (the USSR's ally) by showing the oppression of the pre-revolutionary times.

But that's my point - the oppression under communism is just as awful, except now you can't even own anything. Propaganda

The student is the communist, they're protesting the government existing before the revolution.

People do not generally equate fights for or against one's cause, even if the methods are the same.

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