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Release Date: 1964

Cast: Jean Bouise, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Jesús del Monte, Celia Rodriguez, Roberto García York, Raúl García, Sergio Corrieri, Fausto Mirabal, Alberto Morgan, María de las Mercedes Díez, Luz María Collazo ...MORE

Cast: Jean Bouise, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Jesús del Monte, Celia Rodriguez, Roberto García York, Raúl García, Sergio Corrieri, Fausto Mirabal, Alberto Morgan, María de las Mercedes Díez, Luz María Collazo, Mario González Broche, Bárbara Domínguez ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Experimental Film, World Cinema, Propaganda, Drama Film, Historical Epic, Avant-Garde

I am Cuba (Spanish: Soy Cuba; Russian: Я Куба, Ya Kuba) is a 1964 Soviet-Cuban film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm. The film was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public and was almost completely forgotten until it was re-discovered by filmmakers in the United States thirty years later. The acrobatic tracking shots and idiosyncratic mise en scene prompted Hollywood directors like Martin Scorsese to begin a campaign to restore the film in the early 1990s. The film is shot in black and white, sometimes using infrared film obtained from the Soviet military to... MORE

I am Cuba (Spanish: Soy Cuba; Russian: Я Куба, Ya Kuba) is a 1964 Soviet-Cuban film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm. The film was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public and was almost completely forgotten until it was re-discovered by filmmakers in the United States thirty years later. The acrobatic tracking shots and idiosyncratic mise en scene prompted Hollywood directors like Martin Scorsese to begin a campaign to restore the film in the early 1990s. The film is shot in black and white, sometimes using infrared film obtained from the Soviet military to exaggerate contrast (making trees and sugar cane almost white, and skies very dark but still obviously sunny). Most shots are in extreme wide-angle and the camera passes very close to its subjects, whilst still largely avoiding having those subjects ever look directly at the camera. Shortly after the 1959 Cuban revolution overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, the socialist Castro government, isolated by the United States after the latter broke diplomatic and trade relations in 1961, turned to the USSR for film partnerships. The Soviet government, interested in promoting international socialism, LESS