I Am Cuba

Mikhail Kalatozov
Part of

56th New York Film Festival

September 28 - October 14, 2018

Mikhail Kalatozov’s wildly mobile, hallucinatory film went largely disregarded and almost unknown for nearly 30 years but is now renowned as a one-of-a-kind film experience, a visually mind-bending bolt from the historical blue.

DIRECTOR
Mikhail Kalatozov
YEAR
1964
COUNTRY
Cuba / USSR
RUNTIME
141 minutes

Mikhail Kalatozov’s wildly mobile, hallucinatory film was initially rejected by both Cuban and Soviet officials for excessive naiveté and an insufficiently revolutionary spirit, and went largely disregarded and almost unknown for nearly 30 years. That all changed in the early nineties—a remarkable era in film culture, chock full of rediscoveries—when Tom Luddy programmed it at the Telluride Film Festival, and Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola co-presented a Milestone Films release. I Am Cuba is a one-of-a-kind film experience, a visually mind-bending bolt from the historical blue. A Milestone Film & Video release.

Milestone Film & Video’s 4K restoration from the original Gosfilmofond 35mm interpositive and mag tracks was done at Metropolis Post with Jason Crump (colorist) and Ian Bostick (restoration artist). 4K scan by Colorlab, Rockville, MD.

I Am Cuba
I Am Cuba
I Am Cuba

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