Soy Cuba (1964)

Directors

Michail Kalatosov

Cast

Sergio Corrieri, José Gallardo, Raúl García, Jean Bouise, Luz María Collazo, Celia Rodriguez, Luisa María Jiménez, Mario González Broche, Alberto Morgan, Salvador Wood

The story

The movie consists of four distinct short stories about the suffering of the Cuban people and their reactions, varying from passive amazement in the first to a guerrilla march in the last. Between the stories, a female narrator (credited "The Voice of Cuba") says such things as, "I am Cuba, the Cuba of the casinos, but also of the people." The first story (centered on the character Maria) shows the destitute Cuban masses contrasted with the splendor in the American-run gambling casinos in Havana. Maria lives in a shanty town on the edge of Havana and hopes to marry her fruit-seller boyfriend, René.

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