Ulla himself acts his own role in the amusing initial scenes. He's seen on the phone talking with Cuban film bureaucrats in a fruitless effort to persuade Havana to coproduce the film. At the other end, the sight of Pedro Luis Boitel's mother, Clara, sharing memories of the tortured son whom she lost in prison after one of Boitel's many hunger strikes is probably the film's most dramatic moment. Parts of Nobody Listened are visual firsts. Never before, for instance, have outsiders seen plantados prisoners crunched in their small cells, wearing only their underwear.
Nobody Listened is, above all, testimony and denunciation.
Were this film to be shown in the current session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, diplomats from all over the world might finally in unison point an accusing finger to the chamber of horrors floating with impunity in the Caribbean. It would be the ideal award for this outstanding film. The Miami Herald.