Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11953 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-04-03
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 143 minutes

Customer Reviews

Superb cinematic expressionism
Cane-cutters under the Carribean skies.....revolutionaries in the mountains.....young activists in fifties Havana...just a few images from this remarkable 2 hour film about Cuba.
The four beautifully shot stories transport the viewer from decadence in pre-Castro Havana towards the days of fighting for freedom. Following a typically soviet propaganda line throughout, this film is far more impressive than it sounds and this may be due to the superb cinematography,the moving shots,crowd scenes and the staccato,sparse dialogue.
I havent seen a film as striking as this for a long time,the slow,even paced stories are a visual delight and i wonder if the bearded revolutionary speaking in the mountains on the radio near the end is meant to be Don Fidel himself?.
Scripted in Spanish with patches of english dialogue,this is a very strange mix of soviet funding and Cuban bravado...superb!.

Viva la revolution!
I would echo much of what the other reviewers say and add I'm shocked this film isn't more widely known. It's arrestingly beautiful and deeply moving. It points up huge the social inequities and the need for political change under Batista's regime in the lead up to the 1959 revolution in Cuba. Great stuff!

Beautiful
Filmed mostly with a wide-angle lens, and in black and white, Soy Cuba is highly stylised and visually impressive. Whether or not you sympathise with the Communist sentiment this film is worth watching: it's fast-paced, enjoyable but moving. And if you've been to Cuba then it's all the more rewarding.