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"DISC 1: "I am Cuba" (Feature film) - Four vignettes in Batistaś Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long mobile shots tell almost wordless stories. DISC 2: "The Siberian Mammoth" (Documentary films) - Vicente Ferraz' award-winning documentary on the making of "I am Cuba." DISC 3: "Francis Ford Coppola & Martin Scorsese present a film about Mikhail Kalatozov" (Documentary film) - a documentary of the personal history of Kalatozov by the filmmaker's grandson Mikhail Kalatozishvili that explores the life of Russian cinema and his classic films. Features previously unseen footage of his films as well as interviews with French director Claude Lelouch, Andrei Konchalovsky, Tatiana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov, Sergei Solovyov and Yevgeny Yevtushenko."
"A masterfully photographed, wildly schizophrenic celebration of Communist kitsch, mixing Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality. Started only a week after the Cuban missile crisis and designed from the Cuban point of view as a thinly veiled propaganda film, the plot, or rather plots, feverishly explore the seductive, decadent (and marvelously photogenic) world of Batista's Cuba - deliriously juxtaposing images of rich Americans and bikini-clad beauties sipping cocktails poolside with scenes of ramshackle slums filled with hungry children and gaunt old people. In addition to its bravura technique, the film succeeds in exploring the innermost feelings of its characters and their often desperate human situations."
"Four stories show the rise of the Communist revolution in Cuba. Battista's Havana and the poverty and oppression of the Cuban people."
"In Batista's Cuba foreign capitalist influence runs rampant, economically stratifying the people into a decadent leisure class that revels in the spoils of Western civilization and a working class that toils day by day, feeling the echoes of colonialism."
"A dramatization of the decadence of Batista's Havana and the poverty that fueled the Cuban Revolution."
"A dramatization of the decadence of Batista's Havana and the poverty that fueled the Cuban Revolution."@en
""[I am Cuba], director Mikhail Kalatozov and cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky's hybrid offspring of Soviet orthodoxy and Cuban tropicalismo, is a film of dazzling contrasts. In four intertwining stories of the revolution, Urusevsky's acrobatic camera takes the viewer on a dizzying ride through smoky nightclubs and rooftop pool parties, rickety shantytowns and rustling sugarcane fields, student protest rallies and remote guerilla outposts." -- Container."
"En quatre vignettes, l'histoire du Cuba pré Castriste vue sous le prisme du cinéma de propagande russe. Mais avec un poète derrière la caméra, Mikhail Kalatozov, qui fait de son film un chant d'amour à l'île cubaine, son peuple et au cinéma. Quatre histoires édifiantes magnifiées par un cinéaste en état de grâce : la honte d'une jeune cubaine quand son courtisan découvre qu'elle vend son corps aux touristes américains pour vivre. La détresse d'un petit paysan qui apprend que son terrain a été vendu à une compagnie américaine, la United Fruit. Le destin d'un étudiant abattu par la Police alors qu'il distribue des tracts pro-Castristes. Un paysan rejoint la guérilla pour sauver son île et sa famille."
"A series of vignettes illustrates the extremes of wealth and poverty, the exploitation, and the passions that led to the Cuban Revolution."
"'A film about Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov' is a "comprehensive documentary on this giant of Russian cinema." -- Container."
"In 'O mamute Siberiano,' Vicente Ferraz documents the making of Soy Cuba, which was largely panned by Cubans, the Soviet Union and the West at its release, then nearly forgotten. Using new and archival footage and interviews, he also contrasts the Cuba shown in the film with the Cuba forty years later. Surviving members of the cast and crew are interviewed regarding the film's rediscovery and subsequent reclassification as a cinema masterpiece."
""Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long, mobile shots tell almost wordless stories. In Havana, Maria faces shame when a man who fancies her discovers how she earns her living. Pedro, an aging peasant, is summarily told that the land he farms has been sold to United Fruit. A university student faces down a crowd of swaggering U.S. sailors and then watches friends shot by police when they try to distribute a pro-Castro leaflet. The war arrives on the doorstep of peasants Mariano, Amelia, and their four children when Batista's forces bomb the hills. Mariano wants peace, so he seeks out the guerrillas to join the fight"--J. Hailey, Internet movie database, as viewed November 28, 2005."
"A través de cuatro historias, Soy Cuba describe la lenta evolución de Cuba, del régimen de Batista a la revolución de Fidel Castro. Son cuatro narraciones que refuerzan el ideal comunista frente al capitalismo. A lo largo de estos episodios, Cuba se libera de sus dependencias políticas para reafirmar su identidad, singular e independiente, con sus contradicciones y esperanzas."
"Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long mobile shots tell almost wordless stories."

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"Propaganda films"
"History"
"Motion pictures, Russian"
"Drama"
"Foreign films"
"Features"
"Cuban films"
"Russian films"
"DVD-Video discs"
"Fiction films"
"Feature films"
"Drames"
"Motion pictures, Cuban"
"Historical films"
"Fiction"@en
"Documentary"
"Propaganda"
"Documentary films"
"Historical"

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"Soy Cuba (Motion picture)"
"Soy Cuba (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica)"
"I am Cuba"
"I am Cuba"@en
"I am Cuba = Soy Cuba"@es

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