I am Cuba (1964) - Mikhail Kalatozov - Clip 2

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A prostitute solicits in a posh nightclub but lives in a derelict slum in Havana while a disenfranchised sugarcane farmer is driven to burn his precious produce in despair. An angst-ridden student ponders the use of violence as means of resistance and an apolitical peasant is driven to join Castro's brigades. These four episodes, narrated by a woman who identifies herself as Cuba, chart the course of a nation's fate from colonialist subjugation to popular revolution. I am Cuba represents a singular collective endeavour. A Soviet-Cuban production, it boasts the talents of poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko as a screenwriter and represents the aesthetic summit of cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky and director Mikhail Kalatozov's collaboration (the duo had previously made The Cranes Are Flying and The Letter Never Sent). The film's elaborately conceived and painstakingly choreographed camera set-ups are without parallel in film history.

Initially commissioned as propaganda, its technical tour-de-force has made it a cult film; earning admiration from film-makers Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) and Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull).

A work of dazzling cinematographic invention that still has the ability to astound -- Film4

Some of the most exhilarating camera movements and most luscious black-and-white cinematography you'll ever see -- Chicago Reader

It is one of the most visually hypnotic films ever -- and that's not hyperbole -- San Francisco Chronicle

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[hebneh]

Obviously, burning the sugar cane field in this scene is an act of desperate sabotage, but ironically, in Hawaii, sugar cane fields were always intentionally burned this way before the cane was cut and harvested.

Not that much sugar cane is grown in either Cuba or Hawaii anymore.

[FeigningPatriot]

really wanted to hear the narrators monologue that ends this scene but thx for posting neways