Daniel Diaz Torres, the director of the film, uses comedy as an instrument of reflecting the national situation. Lisanka's central plot revolves around a love triangle that later evolves into a love square involving three Cubans (two men and a woman) and a Soviet soldier. Set in a fictitious rural village near a Soviet military base in central Cuba, their amorous adventures, or misadventures, unravel against the backdrop of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Speaking about Lisanka, the director said that he used the historic moment of the October Crisis to narrate a much more ordinary and entertaining story of human nature.
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