I am Cuba (1964): Soviet Era Film
April 19, 7:00pm - 9:00pmMānoa Campus, Doris Duke Theater
Produced by Mosfilm and ICAIC, this film was started only a week after the Cuban missile crisis and was designed to be Cuba’s answer to both Sergei Eisenstein’s propaganda masterpiece, Potemkin and Jean-Luc Godard’s freewheeling romance, Breathless. But I Am Cuba turned out to be something quite unique—a wildly schizophrenic celebration of Communist iconography, mixing Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality. 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.
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Russian, Mānoa Campus
More Information
Sophia Rathyen, (808) 436-3305, srathyen@hawaii.edu
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12:00am |
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I am Cuba (1964): Soviet Era Film
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I am Cuba (1964): Soviet Era Film
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