The Man from Maisinicú

Set almost exclusively among counterrevolutionaries (taking the virtues of the revolution for granted) The Man from Maisinicú, though contemporary and "documentary" is a western, not because the good guy, Delgado, rides the only horse and administers a ranch, but because he is a loner, an ambiguous moral figure in an out-of-doors action melodrama in which all the other major figures are similarly representative of historical dilemmas. The structure generates recurrent motifs: pursuit and capture of each counterrevolutionary shot by hand-held camera and dynamically edited; a march of the captive and his guard down an anonymous Kafka-esque hallway, disappearing into an interrogation cell.