Cuando éramos felices y no lo sabíamos

In the organizer's words:

Kristina Konrad, DE/CU 2011, 73 min, Span. OmeU

Everyone in Cuba knows Maité Vera's telenovelas - she is a legend. "Why should I spread lies on TV if we accept it in life?", she says and wants people to be able to dream in her love stories and still not gloss over the circumstances of everyday life. She has this in common with Kristina Konrad. In 'When we were happy and didn't know it', the filmmaker creates a monument to this quick-witted, profound and rather charming woman and yet sticks to the essentials: her son in Denmark, writing as a modest everyday activity and heated debates about Cuba and Brecht's drama theory. One thing becomes increasingly clear as the film progresses: if Brecht were still alive, he would be writing telenovelas like Maité Vera.