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I Am Cuba

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I Am Cuba
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NR,2hrs 20min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1964
Director:
Mikhail Kalatozov
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Starring:
Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, Jose Gallardo  ...more
Synopsis: An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in the final days of the Batista regime; the first two illustrate the ills that led to the revolution, the third and fourth the call to arms which cut across social and economic lines. A lovely young woman in a nightclub frequented by crass American businessmen takes a customer to her modest seaside shack for a night of pleasure for ... Full Synopsis
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Tom Wiener, AMG Review
I Am Cuba is to communist propaganda what Triumph of the Will is to the Nazi cause. Leaving aside the content of the two films' messages, these are exceptionally well-made works of cinema. While Triumph director Leni Riefenstahl was confined by the limitations of her subject -- providing a record of the 1934 Nuremberg rallies -- Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov had a freer hand with this co-production ... Full Review
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