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Nicolás Guillén Landrián More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

1938, Camagüey, Cuba

Date of Death

23 July 2003, Miami, Florida, USA

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Most of his documentaries were censured, apparently because he was not considered of the quality required to represent the Cuban Film Industry. Nephew of the poet Nicolas Guillen, he was also a painter and writer. Most of his films are still unknown in Cuba and even less in the world. He was sent to jail twice and also to a mental institution, where he was given electric shock treatment. Irreverent, experimental and in some way sarcastic, some of his films have survived censorship.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Manuel Zayas

Mini Biography

Senior Landrián was an anti-communist Cuban filmmaker. Almost all of his documentaries were banned by the Cuban government since they were felt to be insulting of the dictator Fidel Castro. Because of his anti-Castro films, he was arrested by the Castro government. He was first arrested by the Castro government in 1968, for "plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro", and was held for 6 months under torture and interrogation. Then he was released when he failed to break. In 1970 to 1989, he was arrested numerous times for his anti-Castro documentaries. During this time he was once again interrogated and tortured, but refused to "confess". So he was repeatedly subjected to Electro Convulsive Therapy ("shock treatments"), without any anesthetic, but he still refused to confess to being anti-Castro. In 1989, he was able to escape Cuba and make his way to the freedom of the Miami, Florida Cuban community. He eventually died of cancer on the 23rd of July, 2003, at Mercy Hospital in Miami Florida. At his wife's request his body was returned to Cuba and he was buried at Colon Cemetery in his beloved Havana, Cuba. He was the nephew of Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Rev. Dr. John Benjamin Tatum, D.D., Ph.D.

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