A fever dream, a plunging rollercoaster ride, a cinematographer; 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 (The Cranes Are Flying) and cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky's hybrid offspring of Soviet orthodoxy and Cuban tropicalismo is a film of dazzling contrasts. In four 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. I Am Cuba culminates in the most gorgeously filmed funeral procession of all time, as the camera floats through a cigar factory and hovers high above the narrow streets of Havana. A whirling dance through the sensuous decadence of Batista's Cuba, I Am Cuba: The Ultimate Edition is a cinephile's dream come true.
