I Am Cuba is an epic poem to Communist kitsch - a dramatic journey though the decadence of Batista Havana set against the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. In the four short stories showing the rise of the revolution Kalatozov's astonishingly acrobatic and groundbreaking camera work takes the viewer on a sweeping ride encompassing bathing beauties landless peasants and student revolutionaries. The film was rediscovered and presented by directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorcese at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals to critical acclaim.... I Am Cuba will change your view of cinema forever... [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. A prostitute solicits in a posh nightclub but lives in a derelict slum in Havana while a disenfranchised sugarcane farmer is driven to burn his precious produce in despair. An angst-ridden student ponders the use of violence as means of resistance and an apolitical peasant is driven to join Castro s brigades. These four episodes, narrated by a woman who identifies herself as Cuba, chart the course of a nation's fate from colonialist subjugation to popular revolution. I Am Cuba is a singular collective endeavour. A Soviet-Cuban production, it boasts the talents of poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko as screenwriter and represents the aesthetic summit of cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky and director Mikhail Kalatozov's collaboration (the duo had previously made The Cranes Are Flying and The Letter Never Sent). The film's elaborately conceived and painstakingly choreographed camera set-ups are without parallel in film history. Initially commissioned as propaganda, its technical tour-de-force has made it a cult film, earning admiration from film-makers Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) and Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull).
Directed by legendary filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov during 1963-4, this film contains four short stories detailing the rise of the revolution in Cuba. It describes the decadence of Batista's Havana and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people.
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