I am Cuba

The film consists of several short stories , each of which tells the story of the fate of people on the eve of and during the revolutionary events on the island of Cuba .

A cheerful street vendor of fruits falls in love with a neighbor girl, Maria, but then she finds out that she is a prostitute , nicknamed Betty, who sells her body to rich American tourists for a piece of bread.

The old peasant Pedro burns the sugarcane crop he has grown with great difficulty after he learns from the owner that the land has been sold to United Fruit .

Students at the University of Havana print leaflets with true information about Fidel Castro 's partisan units operating in the Sierra Maestra Mountains in southeastern Cuba. Police rush into the university, disperse the demonstration and kill activists.

Peasant Mariano does not want to take up arms and go into the mountains, but after an air raid and the death of his son, in the first battle he gets a rifle and joins the rebels .

• Sergio Corriieri - Alberto
• Jose Gallardo - Pedro
• Garcia Raul - Enrique
• Luz Maria Collazo - Maria Betty
• Jean Bouise - Jim
• Celia Rodriguez - Gloria
• Fausto Mirabal
• Roberto Garcia York
• Salvador Wood
• Alberto Morgan
• Raquel Revuelta - voice of Cuba

The Russian text is read by N. Nikitin ( voice of Cuba ) and G. Epifantsev

Almost the entire film was shot with a hand-held camera . Cameraman Sergei Pavlovich Urusevsky used a wide-angle lens to avoid shaking while walking. In the film, intra-frame editing is widely used; for example, the operator walks with the camera around the hall, descends by elevator and even enters the pool.

The camera work of Urusevsky to this day is considered the standard for the further development of cinema. Winners of numerous world awards for their work, cameramen Sean Bobbitt and Ben Seresin consider it the greatest in history ^{[1] [2]} .

Tarkovsky A.A. repeatedly criticized camera and directorial tricks in this film for the fact that "it turns into an end in itself." So, for example, in his “Lectures on filmmaking”, he spoke as follows: “After all, there were attempts to remove everything from one point of view, for example, Hitchcock's “ Rope ”or“ I am Cuba ”and others. Well, what did it lead to? Nothing, because there is nothing in it. " (The magazine "The Art of Cinema " No. 7-10 for 1990 ) ^[3] .

• 1964 - IV International Technical Film Competition as part of the VI Congress of UNIATEC in Milan : Highest Prize
• 1996 - Archival Award of the National Society of Film Critics of the United States, Nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film

• Script writers: Evgeny Yevtushenko , Enrique Pineda Barnet
• Stage Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
• Composer: Carlos Farignas
• Director of photography: Sergey Urusevsky
• Artist: Evgeny Svidetelev
• Director: Bella Friedman
• Art advice and costumes: Rene Portocarrero
• Sound engineer: V. Sharun
• Choreographer: A. Suez
• Editor: N. Glagoleva
• Conductors of orchestras: Emin Khachaturian , M. Ducesne Kusan
• Operators: B. Brozhovsky , A. Kaltsaty
• Combined shooting: B. Travkin , A. Vinokurov
• Makeup: B. Rudina, L. Cáceres
• Assistant directors - M. Volovich, G. Tanner, O. Zernov
• Assistant operators - M. Oropes, K. Shilov, M. A. Ramirez
• Installation Assistant - L. Tyurina
• Assistant Sound Engineer - R. Plaza
• Deputy Directors - H. Rouko, K. Stenkin, T. Vargina
• Assistant Director - L. Garcia, R. Bruges, S. Miguel
• Administrators - E. Rivero, R. Romay, M. Mora, R. Negrin
• Senior translator: Pavel Grushko
• Lighting teams - V. Mikhailov, G. Cantero
• Production teams - L. Obregon, L. Carrillo, H. Cruz, H. Varona
• Photographer: R. Dovo
• Pyrotechnics: V. Pugachev, E. Fong, V. Sukharetsky
• Costumers and requisites - C. Garcia, E. Mustlier, M. Trabas, M. Noah, F. Labrador
• Consultants: A. Fonseca, R. Farignas
• Directors of the picture: S. Maryakhin, M. Mendoza

In November 2007, under the direction of Martin Scorsese , a 3-disc collector's DVD edition of a completely restored film was released in the USA (including a soundtrack in Russian), including a film about the film "Siberian Mammoth" by Brazilian director Vicente Ferraza, shot in 2005 year, and many other additional materials.

• Regular format
• Black white
• 3906 meters
• 143 minutes
• Co-production with the studio "ICAIC" (Cuba).

The British film critic Peter Bradshaw included the film "I - Cuba" in his list of the greatest films of all time ^[4] .

• " Rope " ( Eng. Rope, 1948) - a film by Alfred Hitchcock
• Russian Ark (2001) - film by Alexander Sokurov
• Hotel Capri

• “I'm Cuba” on the Internet Movie Database
• I'm Cuba on the allmovie website  
• The film "I - Cuba" in the online movie theater "Mosfilm"
• Official page of the 2007 collection 3-disc DVD edition
• Spanish-language version of the film "I - Cuba"