Soy Cuba; Russian: Я Куба, Ya Kuba, 1964
Mikhail Kalatozov

Cinematography
Sergey Urusevsky

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

“Beautiful… Visually dazzling… Miraculous… I am baffled as to why it isn’t in everyone’s Top 10 lists”, Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN

KALATOZOV and  URUSEVSKY have made some of the most amazing movies of all times. Soy Cuba  is a movie that every student of cinema must see and study, to understand the special movement of the camera  creating a new ontology of image. If there is a MOVIE, Soy Cuba is the one. 
José
  
1)
Funeral
All schools and teachers of cinema must show this scene to theirs students. 
https://youtu.be/sYFXv6bDIY8

2)
Soy Cuba (I am Cuba) the opening 5 minutes
https://youtu.be/eOLVm_9UcRw

3)
Soy Cuba (Я Куба) - song from movie
https://youtu.be/8aT3Ii3hWM0

4)
I am Cuba - Maria nightclub sequence - One Minute Film School: camera
Mikhail Kalatozov's I am Cuba (1964) made with the collaboration of MosFilm and the Castro regime is a masterpiece in camera and art direction. Great movie cameramen shoot through things; filters, fog, objects, windows anything that can add light, shadow and enhance the characters emotion in the scene. The genius of this dance scene is that the director Kalatozov and cameraman Sergei Urusevsky shoot and cut in less than 8 shots for a 7 minute dance sequence. The few edits are so well hidden you have to frame by frame the scene to find them.

https://youtu.be/oNPTu7gAYxo

I Am Cuba
Soy Cuba  
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
Produced by Bela Fridman
Semyon Maryakhin
Miguel Mendoza
Written by Enrique Pineda Barnet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Starring
Sergio Corrieri
Salvador Wood
José Gallardo
Jean Bouise
Music by Carlos Fariñas
Cinematography
Sergey Urusevsky
Edited by N. Glagoleva
Distributed by Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC)
Country
Cuba
Soviet Union
Language Spanish
English
Russian

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2015-09-20

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