I Am Cuba

Name: I Am Cuba
Genre: Drama
Released: December 1, 1995
Duration: 141 min
Rating: 91
Cast: Alberto Morgan, Fausto Mirabal, Jean Bouise, José Gallardo, Luz María Collazo

1995

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Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC) | Release Date: December 1, 1995 | Not Rated

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

Summary: Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 141 min

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Edward Guthmann

Photographed in lush black and white by Sergei Urusevsky, who worked with the amazingly inventive camera operator Alexander Calzatti, "I Am Cuba" unfolds like a cinematic Olympics of complex, acrobatic camera moves. Read full review

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G. Allen Johnson

Powered by the great Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov ("The Cranes Are Flying") and the unmatched handheld black-and-white cinematography of Sergei Urusevsky, it is one of the most visually hypnotic films ever -- and that's not hyperbole. Read full review

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Jamie Russell

It's a vibrant, joyous piece of technical accomplishment that's probably one of the most relentlessly innovative films you'll ever see. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Audacious, thrilling, erotic (and in three languages, no less), I Am Cuba is a lost masterpiece of filmmaking finally seeing the light of day 30 years after its production. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

A thrilling juxtaposition of bravura filmmaking and knee-jerk propaganda, this 1964 Soviet-Cuban coproduction is a rare successful combination of the aesthetic and the political. [19 Jan 1996, p.22]

William Arnold

For all of its genre awkwardness, "I Am Cuba" has to be considered as one of the most striking visual epics of the 1960s - in the same imaginative league as "Spartacus," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Dr. Zhivago." [23 Jun 1995]

Matthew Gilbert

The film is a marvelous visual and emotional record. Alas, at 2 1/2 hours, the shallow stories of "I Am Cuba" become trying and redundant. [01 Dec 1995, p.52]

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