The Cuba Libre Story

The Cuba Libre Story is a documentary series that portrays the history of Cuba from colonial times to the present day.[1] The eight-part series was released on Netflix on December, 11 2015.

The Cuba Libre Story
Genre	Documentary
Directed by	Emmanuel Amara Kai Christiansen Florian Dedio
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Gunnar Dedio Grégory Schnebelen Igor Prokopenko
Producer(s)	Regina Bouchehri Louis-David Delahaye Birgit Rasch Olga Zatulkina
Running time	52 minutes
Production company(s)	LOOKSfilm
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	December 8, 2016 (2016-12-08)
External links
Official website

For The Cuba Libre Story, more than 50 international Cuba experts and contemporary witnesses were interviewed - both supporters and opponents of Fidel Castro and his predecessor Fulgencio Batista. Among them are Cuba's former intelligence chief Juan Antonio Rodríguez Menier and KGB Latin America chief Nikolai Leonov, Che Guevara's comrade Dariel Alarcón and CIA agent Félix Rodríguez, Fidel Castro's former lover Marita Lorenz and his former bodyguard Carlos Calvo, the stepdaughter of mafia boss Meyer Lansky, Cuba's famous novelist Leonardo Padura and the last Head of State of the GDR and personal friend of the Castro brothers, Egon Krenz.[2]

Episodes

No.	Title	Original air date
1	"Breaking Chains"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
2	"War and Sugar"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
3	"Gangster's Paradise"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
4	"A Ragtag Revolution"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
5	"Making Heroes"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
6	"Of Soviets and Saviors"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
7	"Secrets and Sacrifices"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
8	"Moments of Transition"	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)

References

1. "The Cuba Libre Story". Netflix Media Center. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
2. "The Cuba Libre Story". LOOKSfilm. Retrieved 24 July 2019.

External links

• The Cuba Libre Story on Netflix
• The Cuba Libre Story on IMDb