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I Am Cuba (1964)

7.8 IMDb 100% RT 91/100 MC
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Four vignettes on the lives of pre-revolutionary era Cuban people; in Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.

Best Release

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

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Genre

Drama

Sub-Genre

Social Drama

Box Office

$168,100

Runtime

2 hours and 21 minutes (141 minutes)

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Editor's Notes

Note

S-Tier Criterion 4K. Kalatozov's Cuban propaganda film with those impossible long takes that Scorsese says would have changed his career if he'd seen them earlier. Criterion licensed this from Milestone's fine-grain positive kept in the US, which matters because the Russian trade embargo means no more Mosfilm titles are coming for the foreseeable future.

noted Apr 9, 2026

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