Dublin, July 1, 2022. The award-winning documentary by Irish film directors Ollie Aslin and Gary Lennon, “The Castro Spies”, premiered last Friday at the renowned Irish Film Institute, thus beginning a cycle of its exhibition at public. Based on the lives of the Five Cuban Heroes, the film addresses the reasons that led the Cuban Government to penetrate the terrorist organizations that from the United States had acted against the Cuban Revolution in the 1990s, dismantling the falsehood with solid and visible arguments of the qualification of "spies" to the protagonists.
With the first-hand testimonies of the Five, the film includes exciting stories of their recruitment, training, work on United States soil risking their lives, the flawed legal processes followed against them and, finally, their happy returns to the homeland with their families, their people. Fidel and Raul.
In an ingenious way, for one hour and forty minutes, archive information, real videos, still photographs and fragments of the well-remembered Cuban television series “In Silence it has had to be” are mixed.
At the end of the presentation, the directors answered questions from the participants, who in turn expressed their understanding for the brave and just work of the Five, as well as their support for the Cuban Revolution in the face of the aggressions suffered by the people of the Greater Antilles continue to suffer. For his part, the Cuban Ambassador to Ireland, Bernardo Guanche Hernández, who was present, conveyed his country's gratitude for the solidarity received during the difficult years of imprisonment of the Five and described the documentary as meritorious for its objectivity.
The film, produced by Gambit Pictures, has been nominated for Best Documentary by the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA).