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1964 2h 21m

Soy Cuba

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov

A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand…

Directing 1

Mikhail Kalatozov
Director
Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]

Writing 2

Enrique Pineda Barnet
Writer
Havana, Cuba
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Writer
Nizhneudinsk, Irkutskaya oblast, USSR (Russia)