La Reina del Condon

A documentary film portrait about Monika Krause, a German student who falls in love with a Cuban captain and follows him to the Caribbean. Knowing little about sex she becomes the official sex educator of Castro's revolution. A film about strong female activists, stubborn machos and Caribbean love life. Soon after the Cuban revolution Monika Krause, a citizen of the GDR, falls in love with Jesús Jimenez, a Cuban captain who has come to Rostock to pick up a freight ship. The 20-year-old student follows her captain to Cuba and, once there, soon starts to mix in the highest circles of the revolution. She becomes Fidel Castro's translator. A few years later she gains nationwide fame in her capacity as state sex educator with a radio and TV program of her own.

Keywords

  • Label: SWISS FILMS
  • Love+: Sexuality
  • Pioneers
  • alternative lifestyle
  • education
  • history
  • latin america
  • the edge
  • women

Actors

  • Monica Krause-Fuchs
  • Dyctis Jimenez Krause
  • Daniel Jimenez Krause
  • Jesus Jimenez Escobar

Director

  • Silvana Ceschi
  • Reto Stamm

Biography, Love & Sex


1h 16min


18

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Switzerland
Ireland
2007
Monika Krause, a German student who fell in love with a Cuban captain became the official sex educator of Castro's revolution.

Monika Krause, a German student who fell in love with a Cuban captain became the official sex educator of Castro's revolution.


A documentary film portrait about Monika Krause, a German student who falls in love with a Cuban captain and follows him to the Caribbean.


Knowing little about sex she becomes the official sex educator of Castro's revolution. A film about strong female activists, stubborn machos and Caribbean love life.


Soon after the Cuban revolution Monika Krause, a citizen of the GDR, falls in love with Jesús Jimenez, a Cuban captain who has come to Rostock to pick up a freight ship. The 20-year-old student follows her captain to Cuba and, once there, soon starts to mix in the highest circles of the revolution. She becomes Fidel Castro's translator. A few years later she gains nationwide fame in her capacity as state sex educator with a radio and TV program of her own.

Cast & Crew