I AM CUBA (Soy Cuba)

Ruskin House Film Screen

A heartfelt tribute to Cuba: lyrical, passionate, stunningly filmed (cinematography gold medal at Cannes). Now regarded as a world classic.

Ruskin House

‘Breathtaking both for its scope and the audacity of its cinematic experiments.’ Mike Lee ‘Exhilarating camera movements…luscious black-and-white cinematography.’ Chicago Reader. ‘Deliriously beautiful.’ New York Times. ‘Absolute film history.’ Paul Schrader, director.Two years in the making, this joint Soviet-Cuban epic on the Cuban Revolution had limited screenings and was archived. But in 1992, shown in tribute to its director, Mikhail Kalatozov, it enjoyed a great U.S. reception. At San Francisco’s 1993 International Film Festival, a full house gave it two standing ovations during projection. Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola helped to revive it, and sixty years after work began on I Am Cuba, it’s now a world classic.The script by two poets, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Enrique Pineda Barnet, weaves a lyrical narrative around four stories, through the voice of Cuba. Sergei Urusevsky’s cinematography, combining great artistry, technical mastery and political fervour, contrasts Batista’s Cuba, a playground for wealthy Americans and unscrupulous landowners, with the desperate poverty of slum-dwellers and peasant farmers. Don't miss this rare opportunity to experience the visual poetry and cinematic impact of I Am Cuba on the large Ruskin House Film Screen. USSR-CUBA | 1964 | 140 minutes

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