I Am Cuba / Soy Cuba (1964) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1214]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1440x1080, ~ 3.7 Mbps | 2hr 21mn | 4.18 GB
Spanish: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps \ Russian: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising. Backed by Carlos Fariñas’s stirring score, the dazzling camera work by Sergei Urusevsky—an inspiration for generations of filmmakers to follow—gives flight to the movie’s message of liberation.