Cine Cubano in Brum: Soy Cuba

Birmingham

Friday, 24 November 2023, 6:30pm

Soy Cuba - I am Cuba is a 1964 Cuban-Soviet political drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. An international co-production 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 re-discovered by filmmakers in the United States some thirty years later. The acrobatic tracking shots and idiosyncratic mise en scene and extraordinary black and white effects prompted Martin Scorsese and others to begin a campaign to restore the film in the early 1990s. It has since become a classic of early revolutionary Cuban cinema.

The movie consists of four distinct short stories about the suffering of the Cuban people and their reactions, varying from passive amazement and exploitation in the first, through anger at the injustice of global politics (before the Revolution), through to the student resistance of the 50s and triumphant guerilla march in the finale. Between the stories, a female narrator (credited as "The Voice of Cuba") says such things as, "I am Cuba, the Cuba of the casinos but also of the people."
See you there if you can make it!

venue: Warehouse cafe / Friends of the Earth, 54 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH

FREE entry / Donation

hosted by CSC Birmingham

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