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DVD007899

I Am Cuba

Kalatozov, Mikhail

The Criterion Collection, 2024

Description:

BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
24 fps

Titles

+ I Am Cuba

Alternate Title:

Soy Cuba

Director:

Kalatozov, Mikhail

Production Co:

Mosfilm, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC)

Running Time:

Feature.   142 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

Cuba, Soviet Union

Year:

1964

Language:

Spanish with English subtitles

Genre:

Drama

Notes:

Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising. 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Disc includes new English subtitle translation and an alternate Russian-dubbed soundtrack. Disc also includes an interview from 2003 with Martin Scorsese, a new appreciation of the film by cinematographer Bradford Young, and an essay from film critic Juan Antonio García Borrero.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ “I Am Cuba,” The Siberian Mammoth

Alternate Title:

Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano

Director:

Ferraz, Vicente

Production Co:

Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV), Estúdios Mega, MegaColor

Running Time:

Feature.   92 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color

Country:

Brazil

Year:

2004

Language:

Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese with English subtitles

Genre:

Documentary

Notes:

The making of I Am Cuba was as epic in scope as the film itself. This 2004 documentary, directed by Vicente Ferraz, is a thorough exploration of that process, from the arrival of Soviet filmmakers Mikhail Kalatozov and Sergei Urusevsky in Havana to the movie’s years-long production -- and tepid reception -- and its international rediscovery in the 1990s. It featuers interviews with key participants and rare behind-the-scenes footage.