El brigadista (1978)

• 70%
• 1978
• Drama
• History
• War
• Octavio Cortázar
• Patricio Wood
• René de la Cruz
• Adela Legrá

In the early years of the Cuban revolution, a young Havana student volunteers to go to a poor rural region to teach peasants how to read and write; he's sent to the Ciénega de Zapata zone, where squads of anti-Castro guerrilla operate; he happens to teach the wife of a squad leader; trouble and confrontation ensues when government militia makes the little town its operations base.