I Am Cuba 1964 123movies

Watch: Soy Cuba 1964 123movies, Full Movie Online – This study of Cuba–partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko–captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country and back again, I AM CUBA examines the various problems caused by political oppression as well as by great discrepancies in wealth and power. Beginning in Havana in the pre-Castro era, we see how foreigners contributed to the city’s prostitution and poverty; this sequence features dreamy, hallucinogenic camera work that creates a feeling of unease and dislocation. Then, in glorious images of palm tress and fertile land, the film looks at the sugar cane fields in the countryside, and the difficulties faced by peasants working the land. Finally, back in the city again, leftist students battle the police and a corrupt government–and pay a high price for their rebellion..
Plot: Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
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dogmatic, but true
In talking about Cuba, people often forget about how things were under Fulgencio Batista. The Cuban-Soviet co-production “I Am Cuba” shows how things were. Throughout four vignettes, we see a Havana prostitute struggling to make ends meet, a humble farmer whose livelihood is destroyed by landowners, students fighting against the repressive police, and finally, people joining up with the revolutionary army.

The whole thing is really socialist realism: the heroic peasants rising up against the oppressive bourgeoisie and getting martyred. But, we have to admit that what “I Am Cuba” portrays is accurate. I don’t know for sure whether or not things got much better after the revolution, but most Cubans certainly prefer things as they are today over how things were under Batista. Either way, the movie can also be interpreted through its camera work, showing Cuba’s landscape and employing some interesting dollies.

Yes, it’s propaganda, but as far as I know, conditions have improved in Cuba ever since they abolished the ladyfinger system and prosecuted Batista’s thugs. This movie reminds of things in the same way that “Schindler’s List” does.

Overwhelming propaganda
I still remember the excitement when I saw this film for the first time in an arthouse in the ’90s. The film had just undergone a restauration financed by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

Director Mikhail Kalatozov is known for “The cranes are flying” (1957). A film critical on the Soviet system and characteristic of the greater artistic freedom of the Chroesjtsjov years. In 1964 the Chroesjtsjov years are over, the Brezjnev years are begun, and Kalatozov is making a propaganda movie.

But what for a propaganda movie! The film consists of four episodes. Two episodes about Americans misbehaving themselves in Cuba, and two episodes idolizing the liberator Castro. Particularly the first two episodes on the Americans make an impression. In the beginning there is a scene where the camara moves between a partying crowd and ends underwater in a swimming pool, and that in a time long before the handheld camera!

But in 1964 Castro was no longer a liberator but the new dicatator, and the Cubans did not warm up for the story the movie told them. After circulation in Soviet cinema’s “Soy Cuba” went to the attic of film history, until Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola gave the film a second life.

Other Information:

Original Language es
Runtime 2 hr 21 min (141 min) (2005 restored Spanish), 2 hr 21 min (141 min) (1964 original) (Russia), 2 hr 21 min (141 min) (2019 Milestone Restoration)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Mikhail Kalatozov
Writer Enrique Pineda Barnet, Evgeniy Evtushenko
Actors Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo
Country Cuba, Soviet Union
Awards 2 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera 9.8 mm lenses
Laboratory Mosfilm, Moscow, Soviet Union
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm