I Am Cuba

Name: I Am Cuba
Genre: Drama
Released: TODO_MISSING
Rating: 100

1964, Drama, 2h 21m

36 Reviews 2,500+ Ratings

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Visually absorbing and formally audacious, I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) opens a long-buried time capsule that has lost none of its captivating power. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution. A young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend. A tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works. University students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval. And, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.

Genre:

Drama
Original Language:

Spanish
Director:

Mikhail Kalatozov
Release Date (Theaters):

Mar 8, 1995 original
Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 15, 2009
Runtime:

2h 21m

Cast & Crew

Luz María Collazo
Maria, Betty

Jean Bouise
Jim

Sergio Corrieri
Alberto

José Gallardo
Pedro

Raul Garcia
Enrique

Salvador Wood

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Full Review… Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine

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Audience Reviews for I Am Cuba

Jan 09, 2012

Good from an historical perspective but not from a viewing one. The best copies of this film and woefully hard on the eyes. An early Soviet look at the outcomes of the Cuban revolution. Naturally a positive one.

John B Super Reviewer
Sep 13, 2011

Kalatozov constructs an opera of striking visuals, cinematic wonders and groundbreaking technical qualities, featuring the most magnificent camera work on celluloid. The spirit of revolution and rebellion is vivid and alive throughout, but the superb poetry displayed in every frame accentuates more the meaning of true cinema construction rather than the intoxicating Communist propaganda that the Soviet Union wanted to spread in the 60s through the Cuban ideals and their great strength of will to die for an ideal (which, in my honest opinion, was bigger than themselves). 100/100

Edgar C Super Reviewer
May 09, 2011

A revolutionary cinematographic! Astounding film! Beautiful black and white photography, Kalatozov use a magnificently camera movements plan sequence. Visually hypnotic, great storys with politic and poetry, the fight for a revolution and free oneself of a dictatorial goverment.

Lucas M Super Reviewer
Jul 23, 2009

B&W set of four stories about Cuba filmed with a communist eye, and a collaboration between Cuba and the USSR. Absolutely beautiful film-making - but I just couldn't engage with it. So those two hours, twenty one minutes felt soooo looonnnnggg. One of those films I should like but don't ... *sigh*. Which means if you want to see it, ignore this review, and see it and you'll love it.

Lesley N Super Reviewer