Julio García Espinosa
De esta película cubana, secuestrada por el gobierno del dictador Fulgencio Batista, afirmó García Espinosa: "Aquella peliculita pobre, maltrecha, primitiva, sin ningún encanto formal, perturbaba, porque planteaba su derecho a decir la verdad".
Hoy, a cuarenta años de su estreno, el autor testimonia su admiración hacia El mégano, corto documental que presagia lo que sería el nuevo cine cubano; y rinde homenaje al neorrealismo italiano "corriente magnífica", a la que el nuevo cine latinoamericano debe tanto.
Forty Years After El Megano.
About this Cuban film, banned by the authorities during the Batista dictatorship, García Espinosa affirms that: "This damaged, primitive little film, which has no formal charm, was disturbing because it dealt with the right to speak the truth". Today, forty years after it was first shown, the author bears witness to his admiration for El Megano, a short documentary which was the forerunner of what was to become the new Cuban cinema; and he pays homage to the "magnificent current" of Italian neorrealism, to which the new Latin American cinema owes so much.
