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The whole pan is shot around him you see first his back, then his legs. Visually absorbing and formally audacious, i am cuba soy cuba opens a long buried time capsule that has lost none of its captivating power. Besides a very satisfactory scan of the original film, soy cuba, the background material contained together in the box and within the soviet mammoth the making of i am cuba shot by a brazilian documentary team, is probably the best purchase i have made from amazon all year. I am cuba soy cuba, by mikhail kalazatov, is a sovietcuban propaganda film with beautiful ultrawide, long take black and. Richard gott on mikhail kalatozovs soy cuba film the guardian. The film is shot in black and white, sometimes using infrared film obtained from.

Play your cards right in cubas capital the independent. Making movies make sense filmmaking for children and young people. Soy cuba will be screened on friday as part of the havana season at the brighton film festival. Soy cubai am cubamikhail kalatozov, cu, 1964 was a collaborative soviet.

Soy cuba 1964 by mikhail kalatozov long tracking shot. I am cuba is set in the late 1950s when a ragtag bunch of students, workers, and peasants organized to overthrow the corrupt regime of dictator fulgencio batista. Originally made in 1964 and unpopular both in russia and cuba, it was released in 1995 through the combined efforts of martin scorsese and francis ford coppola. Mammoth the making of i am cuba shot by a brazilian documentary team. Soy cuba presents a selection of the finest film posters produced in cuba from the 1950s until the early 1970s. An international coproduction between the soviet union and cuba, it was not received well by either the russian or cuban public and was almost completely forgotten until it was rediscovered by filmmakers in the united states thirty years later.

Anderson paying homage to it in their own films a long tracking shot. I am cuba is a 1964 film directed by mikhail kalatozov at mosfilm. We wanted to show the long island, which we are approaching more and more slowly after the titles there is a pan over a povertystricken village. I am cuba is a showcase for some of the most astonishingly complex long. One long shot from the movie soy cuba produced in 1964all happening now at our video art workshop with astrid menze. One surefire way for a new filmmaker to prove his chops is to have a scene carry on in one shot, but how often to. Richard gott on mikhail kalatozovs soy cuba the guardian. The astonishing images of i am cuba the american society. One scene contains probably the most remarkable tracking shot ever. Breadtube is a place for the new wave of creators, journalists and artists making highquality content that goes against the prevailing winds of. It goes on general release in january and will be available on dvd in march. Mikhail kalatozovs account of the castro revolution, soy cuba, is more. Directed by mikhail kalatozov cinematography by sergey urusevsky.