The film is shot in black and white, sometimes using infrared film obtained from. I am cuba is a showcase for some of the most astonishingly complex long. Soy cubai am cubamikhail kalatozov, cu, 1964 was a collaborative soviet. The whole pan is shot around him you see first his back, then his legs. Its rooftop pool featured in the opening long shot of the 1964 sovietcuban movie soy cuba and michael corleone also stayed there in francis ford coppolas the godfather part ii. Mammoth the making of i am cuba shot by a brazilian documentary team. I am cuba is a 1964 film directed by mikhail kalatozov at mosfilm. Richard gott on mikhail kalatozovs soy cuba film the guardian. Originally made in 1964 and unpopular both in russia and cuba, it was released in 1995 through the combined efforts of martin scorsese and francis ford coppola. Famous around the world for their brash originality and bright, clear graphic sensibility, cuban cinema posters of the revolutionary era are held in as high esteem as the moodier and more abstract polish film posters of the same era.
An international coproduction between the soviet union and cuba, it was not received well by either the russian or cuban public and was almost completely forgotten until it was rediscovered by filmmakers in the united states thirty years later. Richard gott on mikhail kalatozovs soy cuba the guardian. Breadtube is a place for the new wave of creators, journalists and artists making highquality content that goes against the prevailing winds of. Soy cuba 1964 by mikhail kalatozov long tracking shot. I am cuba soy cuba, by mikhail kalazatov, is a sovietcuban propaganda film with beautiful ultrawide, long take black and. Directed by mikhail kalatozov cinematography by sergey urusevsky. Making movies make sense filmmaking for children and young people. Soy cuba presents a selection of the finest film posters produced in cuba from the 1950s until the early 1970s. We wanted to show the long island, which we are approaching more and more slowly after the titles there is a pan over a povertystricken village. One scene contains probably the most remarkable tracking shot ever. One long shot from the movie soy cuba produced in 1964all happening now at our video art workshop with astrid menze. One of the most notable action sequences involves a long, unbroken shot that took one month to develop and stage, and five takes to get right. It goes on general release in january and will be available on dvd in march.
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