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      I Am Cuba

      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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      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):  original

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      • 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.

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      • 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

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      • 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.

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      • 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.

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