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- 1995
- Not Rated
- Milestone Film & Video
- 2 h 21 m
- 1995
- Not Rated
- Milestone Film & Video
- 2 h 21 m
Summary Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Directed By: Mikhail Kalatozov
Written By: Enrique Pineda Barnet, Yevgeniy Yevtushenko
- 1995
- Not Rated
- Milestone Film & Video
- 2 h 21 m
- 1995
- Not Rated
- Milestone Film & Video
- 2 h 21 m
I Am Cuba
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Summary Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Directed By: Mikhail Kalatozov
Written By: Enrique Pineda Barnet, Yevgeniy Yevtushenko
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
91
100% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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It's impossible, when we watch "I Am Cuba" today, not to see some poignance
in its soaring shots, sadness to its thrilling vistas. [08 Dec 1995, p.C]
I Am Cuba is a cinephile’s wet dream, a collage of Herculean feats of technical wizardry that would be easy to dismiss if it wasn’t so humane.
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.
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.
The upshot is 141 minutes of visual rapture. [25 Aug 1995, p.L27]
The result is a technically astonishing mixture of optimistic Stalinist kitsch, agitprop and the epic Soviet style of the Twenties.
Even its depravities and imperialist Yankee misbehavior seem quaint. But as an example of lyrical black and white filmmaking, it is still stunning.
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Production Company
Mosfilm,
Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC)
Release Date Dec 1, 1995
Duration 2 h 21 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Society of Camera Operators
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
