Dir. Mikhail Kalazov Cuba/USSR 1964
This Soviet/Cuban collaboration is a kaleidoscopic expose of Cuba during the
time of Batista. It portrays a land of diametric opposites - great wealth and abject poverty.
The political agenda is unapologetic. Within a structure of four short stories of
hardship and abuse, it presents the crushing exploitation of Cubašs people and
resources, revealing the underlying causes of Castrošs revolution. Epic tracking
shots and an array of images in high contrast black and white poetically convey the
conflicting lifestyles of the monied elite and the barely subsisiting underclass.
Lyrical, joyous yet harsh and unwavering, I Am Cuba is a dazzling work. (141m)
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