Cuba by Bike
Cuba by Bike
Cuba by Bike is definitely no tourist travelogue: on the contrary it may be the most honest portrait yet of a society normally inaccessible to the foreign press.The film is now black-listed, but has been shown in Cuba - even by Cuban TV in a censored version - and the Cubans received it with great enthusiasm. Adventurer Stig Hartkopf decided to cross the island on his old Chinese bike, taking just himself and his Hi8 camera to record everything he saw, from the tragic-comic tourists to the family and working lives, joys, sorrows, hopes and dreams of all kinds of people he came across more or less by accident and sometimes stayed with on his way. This crazy Dane managed to disarm everyone with his naiveté and his absurd and sometimes deadly dangerous enterprise.