An animated Soviet look at black-white race relations in America, about the very brief rebellion of a black sugar plantation worker against a white “Sugar King”.
Only the final 7 minutes of the originally 20-minute cartoon have survived to our day. It is an adaptation of a poem written by the famous Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky on July 5, 1925, the day after he spent a day in Havana, Cuba, because his passenger line “Espagne” made a stop-over there.Read More »