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A fever dream, a plunging rollercoaster ride, a cinematographer's hallucination, a love song to the power of cinema. Welcome to I Am Cuba, the film rediscovery that has changed filmmaking forever - in a new deluxe edition! Director Mikhail Kalatozov and cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky's hybrid offspring of Soviet orthodoxy and Cuban tropicalismo is a film of dazzling contrasts. In 4 intertwining stories of the revolution, Urusevsky's acrobatic camera takes the viewer on a dizzying ride through smoky nightclubs and rooftop pool parties, rickety shantytowns and rustling sugarcane fields, student protest rallies and remote guerilla outposts.
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Disc 1:
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I Am Cuba - a new high-definition master from the original Russian 35mm fine-grain interpositive
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Video interview with Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese (26 min.)
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Language tracks in both English and Russian with new English subtitles
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Cuban version of opening credits
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Original Milestone trailer
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Stills gallery
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Disc 2:
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The Siberian Mammouth, Vincente Ferraz's award-winning documentary on the making of I Am Cuba (2005, 91 min., Color/B&W, Portugese, Spanish & Russian with English subtitles)
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CUNY City Cinematheque interview with screenwriter Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2004, 10 min., Color, English)
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Disc 3:
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A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov - a comprehensive documentary on this giant of Russian Cinema (2006, 120 min., Color/B&W, English & Russian with English subtitles)
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I Am Cuba - a booklet on the making of the film and its history since then
