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Death was Named Flora

A short documentary film about the devastation that Hurricane Flora wreaked on Cuba in 1963. The provision of food and medical aid, and the ways that they were carried to the stranded people of Cuba is filmed. The extensive flooding from the Rio Cauto is also captured, as well as a meeting with Fidel Castro who is surveying the flooded areas of rural Cuba.

Credits

Papousek, Jiri; Spata, Jan (director); Zdenek Novak (production); Vlasta Styblíková (cutting)

Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Flora Nese Smrt. English.
Original source: Reproduction of: Flora Nese Smrt Czechoslovakia, 1964. 16mm Comb col pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-508242. | Contributors: Novak, Zdenek; Styblíková, Vlasta. | Production Company: Czechoslovak Films.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:14:46) : sound, colour
Subjects: Natural disasters -- Cuba | Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990 | Aid | Food | Civilian deaths | Health and medicine | Military | Military aircraft | Military bases | Rivers | Rural communities | Flooding | Livestock | Death | Children | Natural disasters | Friendship | Cuba | Havana | Bayamo | Castro, Fidel (1926-2016) | Documentary | 1954-1975 | 1959-1990

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Sources

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