Chicago Committee to Free the Five presents the second film in its monthly film series


Portrait of Teresa ••• December 12

Sunday ••• 2pm

Schmitt Academic Center 254 DePaul University
located at 2320 N. Kenmore, near the Fullerton stop on the Red Line.

For more info, Call Stan Smith 773-376-7521

short reviews:

An excellent and uncompromising fictional movie on women's liberation,the issues women face in terms of traditional ideas held by both men
and women, and the practical day-to-day difficulties women confront in their struggle for self- determination. Teresa, a housewife, incurs the displeasure of her husband because of her involvement in political and cultural groups. Teresa stands as a model of the modern woman determined to struggle to attain her liberation.


Teresa is a Cuban woman who exemplifies the problems of Cuban women under the revolution: They have done a lot for the revolution, but
what has the revolution done for them?Teresa (Daysi Granados, the director's wife and one of post-1959 Cuban cinema's most prominent
actors since its origins) has three sons (Granados' and Vega's own)and a traditional, rather suspicious husband (Adolfo Llaurado, another prominent actor). She also has a factory job, and is a dedicated,harrassed revolutionary worker who takes on the job of cultural
secretary at the factory despite misgivings that she won't be able to handle her many responsibilities. The responsibilities of the latter position increase her husband's jealousy and infantilism, and make her feel increasingly inadequate. She throws her husband out after an ugly scene, and he returns to his mother's house. She is left shouldering the day-to-day burdens of managing life under the revolution.

The stubborn survival of the deeply ingrained traditions of machismo and sexism in post-revolutionary society is the focus of this key
Cuban film shot in a fluid style. Teresa, a housewife, incurs the wrath of her husband because of her involvement in political and
cultural groups. Perhaps the most controversial Cuban film to be released in U.S. Spanish with English subtitles.

2. books, CDs, T-shirts available for Christmas

"All About Cuba" A Cuban CD about Cuba. Spanish and English, $7
Workers in Cuba: Unions and Labor Relations, by Debra Evenson. $10
"Fidel Castro: This is Our Line." 3 speeches from 1963-4 $4
First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. 1975 $8
Cuban Revolution Reader. Ocean Press $20
Fidel Castro Speaks, 1969 $10
Desde mi Altura, From My Altitude. Antonio Guerrero. poetry from one
of the Cuban 5. $7
"We Are Not Prepared to Renounce our Sovereignty" Felipe Perez Roque,
2003, $2.50
Greening of the Revolution, Ocean Press, $12
CD of speeches, writings, video of Che $7 (Spanish)
CD: Breve Historia del Movimiento Sindical Cubano $7
Fidel Castro Speaks on Marxism-Leninism (1961) $5
Basilio Marquez y Eclipse (music CD) $10
Free the Cuban 5 t-shirts, all sizes $15
Che Guevara Reader, $24, Ocean Press
Che, A Memoir by Fidel,Ocean Press, $15
Motorcycle Diaries of Che, Ocean Press, $15
Fidel Castro: War, Racism and Economic Injustice. Ocean Press, $13
Cold War: Warnings for a Unipolar World, Fidel Castro, Ocean Press, $10
Changing the History of Africa, Ocean Press, $10
BioTerror: Manufacturing Wars the American Way, Ocean Press, $10
Che Guevara: Global Justice (3 major statements by Che), $10
Cuba: Mas Alla de los sueños, $15
Cuba 5: With Honor, Courage and Pride. Their speeches at their trial, $5
Defend Cuba and the Cuban 5, $5, National Lawyers Guild