[NYTr] Cuban Premier of "Zuzu Angel"
 
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 00:59:46 -0500 (CDT)


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Granma Daily - Sep 3, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art12.html

Cuban Premier of "Zuzu Angel"

by PEDRO DE LA HOZ

Zuzu Angel could have remained indifferent about what was going on in
her country and continued living the glamorous life of Hollywood stars
and the international jet set, but her life changed when she found out
that her son Stuart had died in 1971 at the hands of the Brazilian
military. Afterwards, she did all she could to try to recover her sonbs
body and to denounce the barbarity of the regime both inside the
country and abroad, up until her tragic death under bizarre
circumstances in 1976.

The story about a famous fashion designer was brought to the silver
screen in "Zuzu Angel" (2006), by director Sergio Rezende and writer
Marcos Bernstein, and will be shown for the first time in Cuba this
month during a week of Brazilian cinema.

In the early hours of April 14, 1976, the designer, whose real name was
Zuleika Angel, died in a car accident while exiting a tunnel in Rio de
Janeiro. According to witnesses, an Army jeep was nearby. Two weeks
before the accident, Angel had given a letter to singer-songwriter
Chico Buarque of Hollanda which read, "If I die due to an accident or
some other reason, it will have been at the hands of my sonbs
murderers." Chico would later dedicate one of his most emotional songs
to the memory of Angel entitled Angelica.

The screening of "Zuzu Angel" in Cuba coincides with the publication for
the first time in Brazil of "Derecho a la Memoria y a la Verdad," a book
about the atrocities committed by the military dictatorship between
1964 and 1985. A 1979 amnesty pardoned all those involved in any crimes
committed under the regime.

The screening of Rezendebs movie has an additional attraction for the
Cuban public as it features three characters from the Brazilian soap
opera "Cabocla," currently being broadcasted on Cuban television.

The Brazilian film showing at Havanabs Charles Chaplin Theater opens
with "El aC1o que mis padres salieron de vacaciones" (The Year My Parents
Went on Vacation) (2006), by Cao Hamburguer, Jury Award winner at last
Novemberbs Sao Paulo International Film Festival.

 
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