Para la guerra

Cuban ex-combatant Andrés Rodríguez Rodríguez, a.k.a. Mandarria, lives from his combat memories of thirty years ago in Nicaragua. Through a series of exercises from a possible war manual, he recreates all the soldier's skills, in an interesting game with director Francisco Marise, and also with the spectator. The solitary life of this former military man, evoked in his most everyday gestures, also provides a dialogue on camera in which he explains his most existential opinions. Mandarria is concerned with reestablishing contact with his former comrades, probably to evoke the meaning that their lives had "for the war". Synopsis: The film explores the memory and loneliness of a former Cuban internationalist soldier through the observation of his body and his (extra)ordinary gestures. It is a war film without gunshots, but with a wound, that of this special forces veteran who searches for the commando comrades who survived his last mission 30 years ago.