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I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba

Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 1964

Spine #1214

Picked by 3 guests

Drama

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili

Written by Enrique Pineda Barnet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Cinematography Sergei Urusevsky

Cast Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García, Luz María Collazo, Jean Bouise, Alberto Morgan, Fausto Mirabal

Picked by

Lav Diaz
Lav Diaz director

“I Am Cuba. Beautiful film from the Cuban Revolution.”

Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle director

“Two of the films that we saw while we were there was this: I Am Cuba, which is a staple and is recommended, and everybody should see it really.”

Danny McBride

“Another visually stunning film: I Am Cuba. I used to watch this film all the time when I first moved out to Los Angeles. I had a projector in my House. I didn’t have a TV. And I would literally just project this movie on the walls of my House. The cinematography is nuts. They pull off all these oners that are sort of unbelievable. I don’t really understand how they did it at the time. Cameras flying over alleyways, down elevators, underwater. Yeah, pretty incredible movie.”