en CB01 OFFICIAL. In 1951, German Puig founded with a group of young people the Cinemateca de Cuba with the support of the Cinémathèque française and outside the official institutions. At 91, he recalls his struggles against indifference, ignorance and how, when the political confrontation extended to the field of culture, his work and name were erased from the island's history: it is the Revolution that has made him a hero.