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Posted: 2/5/2010
The trailer for Sons of Cuba.
Despite being a poverty stricken, isolated island of 11 million, Cuba is the world superpower of amateur boxing. In the past 40 years it has won a staggering 63 Olympic medals in the sport, 32 of them gold. But little was known about how these results were achieved until Andrew Lang and his team became the first film crew ever to be given access to the Havana Boxing Academy. Here, a hand picked group of 10-year old boys rise at 4am, six days a week to begin an excruciating routine of boxing training. Chanting Victory is our duty! Fatherland or death! as they shadow box in the dead of night, these are the boys Fidel Castro has called the standard bearers of the Revolution
This fascinating behind the scenes insight into the Havana Boxing Academy is captured in Sons of Cuba a powerful, uplifting documentary that is released at cinemas on 19 March 2010.
Sons of Cuba follows the stories of three young hopefuls through eight months of training as they prepar watch
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