I Am Cuba
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“For you, I am the casino, the bar, the hotels. But the hands of these children and old people, are also me.”
A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.
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Cast
28 people
Sergio Corrieri
Alberto
Known for
Memories of Underdevelopment
Salvador Wood
Mariano
Known for
Death of a Bureaucrat
José Gallardo
Pedro
Also in
Seven Golden Men
Raúl García
Enrique
Luz María Collazo
Maria / Betty
Also in
Sulkari
Roots of my Heart
Jean Bouise
Jim
Known for
The Big Blue
Nikita
Alberto Morgan
Ángel
No other roles listed
Fausto Mirabal
Roberto García York
American Activist
No other roles listed
María de las Mercedes Díez
Bárbara Domínguez
Jesús del Monte
Mikhail Kalatozov Director · Enrique Pineda Barnet Writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko Writer
Budget $600K · United States release March 1, 1995 · Produced in Cuba, Russia, Russia
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Budget
$600,000
Production
ICAIC
Production
Mosfilm
Production · Studio
Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos
Production
Cuba · Russia · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Soy Cuba
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
English · Russian · Spanish
Release dates
Cuba · October 26, 1964
Theatrical
United States · March 1, 1995
Physical · Blurry, unsubtitled russian-dubbed VHS tape
United States
August 29, 1992 · Premiere · Telluride Film Festival
June 18, 1993 · Premiere · San Francisco International Film Festival
September 1, 2005 · Physical · 35 mm restoration original spanish language
March 9, 2020 · Digital · 4K russian-dubbed
October 29, 2021 · Digital · russian-dubbed with english subtitles
April 23, 2024 · Physical · The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-Ray
France
July 2, 2003 · Theatrical
Greece
October 9, 2008 · Limited theatrical · Re-issue
June 16, 2009 · Physical · DVD
July 27, 2023 · Limited theatrical · Re-issue
Netherlands
December 4, 1997 · Theatrical · Re-release
September 8, 2002 · TV · Nederland 3
Russia
November 2, 1964 · Theatrical
July 26, 1965 · TV · (part 1)
July 27, 1965 · TV · (part 2)
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