I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

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2005-04-14

Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of cultural collaboration between two nations. Yet the film never found a mass audience, languishing for decades until its reintroduction as a "classic" in the 1990s. Vicente Ferraz explores the strange history of this cinematic tour de force, and the deeper meaning for those who participated in its creation.

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Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of cultural collaboration between two nations. Yet the film never found a mass audience, languishing for decades until its reintroduction as a "classic" in the 1990s. Vicente Ferraz explores the strange history of this cinematic tour de force, and the deeper meaning for those who participated in its creation.

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2005-04-14

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Vicente Ferraz

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Documentary

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Español

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Três Mundos Produções

I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

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Othon Bastos

Alexander Calzatti

Fidel Castro

Luz María Collazo

Sergio Corrieri

Maurício do Valle

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Vicente Ferraz

Raúl García Losada

Jean-Luc Godard

Alfredo Guevara

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Mikhail Kalatozov

Enrique Pineda Barnet

Glauber Rocha

Sergey Urusevskiy

Juan Varona

Salvador Wood