Soy Cuba

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Credits

Original Title
Soy Cuba
Title
Soy Cuba
Directed by
Michail Kalatosow
Country
Cuba
Year
1964
Screenplay
Enrique Pineda Barnet, Jewgenij Jewtuschenko
Film Editing
N. Glagoleva
Soundtrack
Carlos Farinas
Cinematography
Sergei Urusevsky
Sound
V. Sharun
Costumes
Rene Portocarrero
Production Design
Jewgenij Svidetelev
Production
ICAIC, Mosfilm
Formats
35mm, DVD
Runtime
141 min.
Language
Spanisch/d
Cast
Dokumentarfilm - documentaire

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"My favourite film" David Bailey

"A sensouously beautiful movie" New York Magazine

"Cinema's singular dream, so often betrayed elsewhere, is to deliver such visions as this" 5/6. Number 2 in Critics Choice, TIME OUT LONDON January 2006

"Nothing quite like I Am Cuba has been created either before or since" 4/5 THE TIMES, Wendy Ide

"Beautiful... Visually dazzling... Miraculous... I am baffled as to why it isn't in everyone's Top 10 lists" 5/5, Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN

"A fascinating artefact of 20th century politics, and an acknowledged masterpiece of technical filmmaking" CHANNEL4.COM REVIEW

"A memorably eccentric and lyrical hymn to the transformatory powers of cinema" BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

"The gliding black and white imagery is magnificent. A masterpiece" THE INDEPENDENT, 5/5&

"A world cinema classic" THE GUARDIAN GUIDE, January 2006

"A Classic of its kind" THE OBSERVER, January 2006

"One of the most deliriously beautiful films ever made" LA WEEKLY

"Visually staggering... A classic" VARIETY US

"Intoxicating" LA TIMES

"Spectacular! visually stunning" Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES