Mauvaise conduite Improper Conduct Néstor Almendros Orlando Jiménez Leal [videorecording]=

From case cover:
Néstor Almendros y Orlando Jiménez-Leal dirigieron en 1984 el documental Conducta impropia, que gira en torno a la represión de la homosexualidad en Cuba. Publicamos aquí su guión, compuesto por entrevistas a importantes personajes de la cultura, que funciona como testimonio de primera mano para escuchar las voces de los exiliados y de los disidentes del régimen.

«Los dictadores (…) ofrecen al visitante una imagen a veces idílica de sus países. En consecuencia, Conducta impropia habrá podido describir la represión en Cuba precisamente porque no ha sido filmada en Cuba. (…) El énfasis puesto en el tema de la persecución de los homosexuales en nuestra película puede servir, por lo absurda y gratuita, como metáfora de la supresión general de las liberta-des cívicas»
Néstor Almendros

«Conducta impropia es una crítica inteligente a la revolución cubana. El testimonio es tan brutal como convincente»
Vincent Canby, The New York Times

Translated Case Cover (Google Translate):
Néstor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez-Leal directed the documentary Conducta impropia in 1984, which revolves around the repression of homosexuality in Cuba. We publish his script here, composed of interviews with important figures of the culture, which serves as a first-hand witness to listen to the voices of the exiles and dissidents of the regime.
 
«Dictators (...) offer visitors an idyllic image of their countries. As a result, improper behavior will have been able to describe the repression in Cuba precisely because it has not been filmed in Cuba. (...) The emphasis placed on the subject of the persecution of homosexuals in our film can serve, for the absurd and gratuitous, as a metaphor for the general suppression of civic freedoms »
Néstor Almendros
 
"Improper behavior is an intelligent criticism of the Cuban revolution. The testimony is as brutal as it is convincing »
Vincent Canby, The New York Times

From IMDb:
An examination of Cuba's "moral purges" that began in 1964 with UMAP camps for those suspected of or found guilty of "improper conduct." Key moments brought outside attention to these policies: the defection of ballet dancers in Paris in 1966, a 48-hour period in 1980 when more than 11,000 Cubans sought asylum in Havana's Peruvian embassy, and the brief detention of writer Virgilio Piñera. Interviews with exiles take up most of the film as they tell their stories and ponder the Castro government's arrest and detention of persons with effeminate mannerisms: what the state calls "extravagant behavior." In essence, the film exposes the Cuban state's homophobic, petit bourgeois nature.

DVD video; Dolby Digital; stereo; PAL; Regions 1-A; 4:3 fullscreen.

Spanish audio.