Plantados (2021) on Netflix

Plot summary

The film narrates the most horrible torture that these men preferred to suffer before negotiating with the Castro regime. Plantados is directed by the well-known director Lilo Vilaplana, the feature film has two story lines; a current one in Miami where an elderly political prisoner lives who discovers a henchman who tortures him in prison; and he begins from that perspective to see all the abuses that were committed in those prisons. This movie will show what really happens in Cuban prisons, and what for the Director means "to do historical justice, which is to do justice to these men who were forgotten in those prisons, who were mistreated, who were harassed by the Castro regime and the world has turned its back , in silence, nobody was listening, and there are many people involved in this ".

"We want to capture the essence of the Plantados, their indomitable spirit, their resistance, their persistence and their courage in the face of the Castro regime" Vilaplana said in a room where a handyman was recreating the cells of the La Cabaña prison, adding layers of cement to make it look like the walls of the ancient Spanish fortress that was turned into a terrifying prison for Cuba's political prisoners.

"Plantados" boasts a million-dollar budget provided by Leopoldo Fernandez Pujals, a Cuban-born businessman who became wealthy in Spain with his Telepizza chain.