The Sixteenth Bath Film Festival

I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)

I Am Cuba
sub-titles

Mikhail Kalatozov

Soviet Union, Cuba | 1964 | 141m | PG
Rondo Theatre
Monday 30th October, 8pm
£4 / £3
With: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, Luz Maria Collazo

This astonishing film is blessed with some of the most extraordinary camerawork in film history, including sequences shot on infra-red filmstock and others that seem to be physically impossible! Ostensibly communist propaganda, celebrating the progress achieved by the Cuban Revolution and dramatising four examples of injustice to the common man in pre-revolutionary Cuba, it effortlessly transcends that rather glum-sounding tag. Held together with a spoken monologue beginning each sequence with the words “Soy Cuba”, this truly great film is a stirring and unforgettable experience - don’t miss it. “Visually staggering... Deliriously choreographed... Soy Cuba is one gorgeous image after another. Astounding ... Incredible!” – Variety. CB

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