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      Castro's Spies

      Released May 13, 2022 1 hr. 43 min. Documentary TRAILER for Castro's Spies: Trailer 1 List
      92% 13 Reviews Tomatometer The thrilling story of an elite group of Cuban spies sent undercover to the US in the 1990s. From their recruitment, training and eventual capture on US soil; this film peers into a secret world of false identities, love affairs and betrayal. Using never seen before footage from the Cuban Film Institute's archive and first-hand testimony from the people at the heart of this story, Castro's Spies gives a rare glimpse into the shadowy world of a spy -- where the stakes are life and death. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered May 14 Buy Now

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      Audience Member An elite group of Cuban intelligence agents — recruited and trained in the U.S. — are released in America in this film that shows what it's really like to be a spy. Using never seen before footage from the Cuban Film Institute's archive and first-hand testimony from the people who actually lived to tell, Castro's Spies is an intriguing doc about the era of Cold War espionage. This film tells the true story of the Cuban Five — Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and René Gonzále — agents who were given new identities and sent to Miami to watch over people of interest for the Cuban government. Meanwhile, their families were told they were deserters and traitors. In September 1998, the Five were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, acting as an agent of a foreign government and other illegal activities — including failure to register as a foreign agent, which seems like a strange crime when you're a spy. Three years later, the Cuban government admitted that they were intelligence agents looking at the Cuban exile community, not the U.S. government. The Five appealed their convictions, which were overturned in 2005, then reinstated shortly afterward. The Supreme Court refused to review their case and it wasn't until 2014 that the last of the Five was able to return to Cuba. Directors and writers Ollie Aslin and Gary Lennon have taken footage from the past and mixed it with interviews with the Five, their compatriots and their enemies. This is a story I'd never heard before and I was so interested to learn more about this secret tale. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Noel Murray Los Angeles Times “Castro’s Spies” becomes genuinely challenging once Aslin and Lennon get to the trials of these men... May 15, 2022 Full Review Hilary A White Sunday Independent (Ireland) The use of both factual archive footage and clips from a schlocky Latino spy show creates an intriguing contrast between the glamorised connotations of espionage and the unhappy, stressful reality. Jul 6, 2022 Full Review Paul Whitington Irish Independent Castro’s Spies paints a vivid portrait of a historical time and place through interviews with all the main players, and particularly the spies themselves, Rated: 4/5 Jul 1, 2022 Full Review Benjamin Franz Film Threat This is a remarkable slice of history. Rated: 8/10 Jun 14, 2022 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills It’s an engrossing tale underlining what a friend’s sister (who’s big in politics there) once told me: Miami is many things, but what it has the most of is corruption. May 23, 2022 Full Review Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Does at least bring back into the public consciousness a significant episode in the fraught relations that have existed between Cuba and the United States over the past sixty-plus years. Rated: B- May 12, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis The thrilling story of an elite group of Cuban spies sent undercover to the US in the 1990s. From their recruitment, training and eventual capture on US soil; this film peers into a secret world of false identities, love affairs and betrayal. Using never seen before footage from the Cuban Film Institute's archive and first-hand testimony from the people at the heart of this story, Castro's Spies gives a rare glimpse into the shadowy world of a spy -- where the stakes are life and death.
      Director
      Ollie Aslin, Gary Lennon
      Executive Producer
      Ollie Aslin, Gary Lennon, John McBeth, Lesley McKimm
      Screenwriter
      Ollie Aslin, Gary Lennon
      Distributor
      Gravitas Ventures
      Production Co
      Screen Ireland, Abuc Documentary Dac , Gambit Pictures, Eagle Hill Films
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      May 13, 2022, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 13, 2022
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