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I Am Cuba (Spanish: Soy Cuba; Russian: Я Куба, Ya Kuba) is a 1964 Soviet-Cuban film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm. The film was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public and 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 scene prompted Hollywood directors like Martin Scorsese to begin a campaign to restore the film in the early 1990s. The film 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.
Original Release
10/26/1964
US Release
03/08/1995
Cast
Name | Character |
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Sergio Corrieri | Alberto |
Salvador Wood | |
José Gallardo | Pedro |
Raúl García | Enrique |
Luz María Collazo | Betty / Maria |
Jean Bouise | Jim (in Cuban version) / Jim |
Alberto Morgan | Ángel |
Fausto Mirabal | |
Roberto García York | American activist |
María de las Mercedes Díez |
Directors
Writers
Enrique Pineda Barnet, Yevgeniy Yevtushenko
Cast
Name | Character |
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Sergio Corrieri | Alberto |
Salvador Wood | |
José Gallardo | Pedro |
Raúl García | Enrique |
Luz María Collazo | Betty / Maria |
Jean Bouise | Jim (in Cuban version) / Jim |
Alberto Morgan | Ángel |
Fausto Mirabal | |
Roberto García York | American activist |
María de las Mercedes Díez | |
Bárbara Domínguez | |
Jesús del Monte | (as Isis del Monte) |
Luisa María Jiménez | Teresa |
Mario González Broche | Pablo (in Cuban version) |
Héctor Castañeda | |
Rosendo Lamadriz | |
Roberto Villar | |
Roberto Cabrera | |
Alfredo Ávila | |
José Espinosa |