Abstract
The essay elaborates on the debate which took place between the Italian Marxist critic Guido Aristarco and the Cuban filmmaker and theorist Julio García Espinosa during the Rencontres internationales pour un nouveau cinema, an event which took place in Montréal in 1974. The essay provides cultural and historical background to the theoretical and political disagreements, which surfaced during this encounter, emphasizing the importance of the legacy of the debates on socialist realism in Italy, as well as the shifting attitudes of the European Left towards Cuba in the course of the 1960s and 1970s. In conclusion, the essay addresses the domestic and international reception of the film which sparked the controversy in Montréal—Girón (Bay of Pigs, Manuel Herrera, 1972).
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