I Am Cuba (1964)
I Am Cuba (1964)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Sergio Corrieri
Alberto
Salvador Wood
José Gallardo
Pedro
Raúl García
Enrique
Luz María Collazo
Maria / Betty
Jean Bouise
Jim
Alberto Morgan
Ángel
Fausto Mirabal
Roberto García York
American Activist
María de las Mercedes Díez
Bárbara Domínguez
Luisa María Jiménez Rodríquez
Teresa
Mario González Broche
Pablo
Evgeniy Evtushenko
Writer
Raquel Revuelta
The voice of Cuba
Aramís Delgado
(uncredited)
Raúl Gómez
Singer (uncredited)
Pepe Ramírez
(uncredited)
Enrique Pineda Barnet
Writer
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Writer
Sergei Urusevsky
Cinematography / Director of Photography
Yevgeni Svidetelev
Production Design
Mikhail Kalatozov
Director
René Portocarrero
Costume Designer
Luz M. Cáceres
Makeup Artist
Vera Rudina
Makeup Artist
Nina Glagoleva
Editor
Enrique Fong
Special Effects
Vasily Pugachev
Special Effects
Vladimir Sukharizky
Special Effects
Boris Travkin
Special Effects
A. Vinokurov
Special Effects
Lidiya Tyurina
Assistant Editor
Carlos Fariñas
Original Music Composer
Roberto Cabrera
Alfredo Ávila
Manuel J. Mora
Rafael Díaz
Roberto Villar
José Espinosa
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 26, 1964
Original NameSoy Cuba
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 21m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
I Am Cuba (Spanish: Soy Cuba; Russian: Я - Куба, Ya – Kuba) is a 1964 film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm. An international co-production between the Soviet Union and Cuba, it is an anthology film mixing political drama and propaganda.
The film 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-scène prompted Hollywood directors like Martin Scorsese to begin a campaign to restore the film in the early 1990s.
I Am Cuba 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.