timespace coordinates: 1930s Havana.
“Vampires in Havana (Spanish: ¡Vampiros en La Habana!) is a 1985 Spanish-language adult animated comedy horror film directed by Juan Padrón and features trumpet performances by Arturo Sandoval.[1] It is an international co-production of Cuba, Spain, and West Germany.
A local musician and aspiring terrorist in Cuba is unaware of his actual nature as a day-walking vampire. He is apparently Count Dracula’s grandson and has served as an unwilling test subject for the experiments of one of Dracula’s sons. The musician finds himself targeted by both an American crime syndicate from Chicago and a multinational group of European vampires. He desperately tries to escape their manhunt.” (wiki)
It is an absolutely absurd madcap adventure with political and historical tones, more like an animated soap opera, but at the same time told with incredible zany humor. Blood since Bram Stoker’s Dracula was forever involved in telling the story of hidden desires, or intimate physiological communism, of the ‘other’ (usually an Oriental or someone from Eastern Europe, usually with a bad accent or Hungarian-sounding name). Less known is that Marx himself used the vampire as a metaphor for the operations of big capital sucking out living labor and transforming it into dead labor, while workers become more or less a blood bank. This animation is thus also about privatization, the grey line btw multinationals and mafia, access, equality and privilege, IP rights and patent trolls, and monopolies. As a socialist country, they have an excess of doctors, and it comes perhaps as no surprise that Cuban medical workers and doctors and “Doctor diplomacy” were deployed in 40 countries to help combat the COVID virus pandemic around the world.
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