Film Screening:

Soy Cuba
(Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964, 141 min, Cuba/Russia, in English and Spanish w/ English Subtitles, B/W, 35mm)

-- Introduced by Prof. Gustavo Furtado (Romance Studies)

Soy Cuba is a cinematic revelation, hidden away in the Soviet archives for three decades, that tells the tale of revolution that never occurred. Moving from city to country and back again, the film examines the various problems caused by political oppression as well as by great discrepancies in wealth and power. In four short stories of the revolution, mixing Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality, Mikhail Kalatov astonishing camera work takes the audience on a rapturous roller-coaster ride of bathing beauties, landless peasants, fascist police, and student revolutionaries.

"Some of the most exhilarating camera movements and most luscious black-and-white cinematography you'll ever see inhabit this singular, delirious 141-minute communist propaganda epic." -- Chicago Reader

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI) and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).