I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast: Luz María Collazo, José Gallardo, Sergio Corrieri, Mario Gonzalez Broche, Raúl García

(Mosfilm/ICAIC, 1964) Rated: N/A

US DVD release date: 20 November 2007 (Milestone Film & Video)

[10 December 2007]

by Chris Barsanti

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Marching Forward Into the Past

The high-flying poem of a plot, the daredevil cinematography that nearly dances, the pulse-quickening humanism: all mark I Am Cuba as a rare emblem of a more idealistic past.

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I Am Cuba is a showcase for some of the most astonishingly complex long takes ever devised. Even today, its virtuosic camerawork is breathtaking.

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