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Summary:
- Director Mikhail Kalatozov's delirious masterpiece uses four stunning vignettes to paint a picture of pre-revolutionary Cuba, its culture, and the people who call the island home. Newly restored in breathtaking 4K with a single-language soundtrack, I AM CUBA has never looked better, with sweeping visuals lending grandeur to the film's outstanding cinematography, sound editing, and narrative heft like never before. Produced by Mosfilm and ICAIC, shooting began only a week after the Cuban Missile Crisis and was poised to be the island nation's response to both Sergei Eisenstein's acclaimed propaganda piece (Battleship Potemkin) and Jean-Luc Godard's recently acclaimed romance (Breathless). Instead, I AM CUBA turned out to be a wildly offbeat celebration of Communist iconography, mixing Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality in a combination that received two standing ovations at the San Francisco International Film Festival, as well as the first ever joint presentation from filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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System Details:
- Digital format: System requirements: Adobe Flash or equivalent.
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Performers:
- José Gallardo, Raúl García, Salvador Wood, Sergio Corrieri
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General Notes:
- Streaming media.
Title from title frames.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1964.
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Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (141 min.)) : sound
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Audio Characteristics:
- digital
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Digital Characteristics:
- video file; MPEG-4; Flash
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Call Numbers:
- Online Video
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Other Standard Numbers:
- Publisher Number, Kanopy: 12557300
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OCLC Numbers:
- 1328453681
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Other Control Numbers:
- [Unknown Type]: kan12557300