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I Am Cuba is a russe film of genre Drama directed by Mikhaïl Kalatozov released in USA on 6 september 1964 with Sergio Corrieri

I Am Cuba (1964)

I Am Cuba
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Released in USA 6 september 1964
Length 2h23
Directed by
OriginRussie
Genres Drama
Rating81% 4.09464.09464.09464.09464.0946

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.

Synopsis

Tourné à partir de janvier 1963, Soy Cuba fut mal reçu à sa sortie en 1964 aussi bien en URSS qu'à Cuba. Il donna notamment lieu à une polémique à Cuba pour son ambiguïté dans la présentation de la société cubaine à la fin de l'ère Batista. Il fut par ailleurs interdit dans les cinémas américains durant la guerre froide. Il tomba donc dans l'oubli jusqu'à sa redécouverte grâce au romancier Guillermo Cabrera Infante, qui le fit projeter au Festival du film de Telluride en 1992. Projeté ensuite au Festival international du film de San Francisco en 1993, il soulève l'enthousiasme de Martin Scorsese et de Francis Ford Coppola, qui en parrainent la diffusion.

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