I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)

Name: I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)
Duration: 2 h 21 min

2hr 21m

2hr 21m

Hidden away in the Soviet archives for three decades, "I Am Cuba" is a wildly schizophrenic celebration of Communist kitsch, mixing Slavic solemnity with Latin… More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Mikhail Kalatozov

Writer:

Enrique Pineda Barnet, Evgeniy Evtushenko

Release Date:

Mar 8, 1995

Runtime:

2hr 21m

Synopsis

Hidden away in the Soviet archives for three decades, "I Am Cuba" is a wildly schizophrenic celebration of Communist kitsch, mixing Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality -- a whirling, feverish dance through both the sensuous decadence of Batista's Havana and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. In four stories of the revolution, Mikhail Kalatov's astonishingly acrobatic camera takes the viewer on a rapturous roller-coaster ride of bathing beauties, landless peasants, fascist police, and student revolutionaries.

Cast

Sergio Corrieri
Salvador Wood
José Gallardo
Raúl García
Luz María Collazo
Jean Bouise
Alberto Morgan
Celia Rodriguez
Fausto Mirabal
Roberto García York

Did You Know?

Trivia

The now famous long take that begins at the top of the hotel, then winds around and down into the swimming pool, originally come out of the water and continued. The camera was hand held, passed from crew member to crew member, to make its way down the side of the hotel into the pool. The camera lens had been equipped with a high speed, spinning glass disk taken from a submarine periscope. The spinning disk was installed to fling water drops of the lens when the camera emerged from the swimming pool at the end of the shot. Much to the disappointment of the camera crew, director Mikhail Kalatozov cut the end of the take, ending it underwater.