This edition: I Am Cuba (1964)
Episode Details
Original tape date: January 17, 2003.(1964/Soviet Union/Cuba, 141 min., b&w, drama)
Director: Mikhail Kalatazov. Written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Cast: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García, Luz María Collazo, Jean Bouise.
A Soviet filmmaker tells four stories of the Cuban Revolution. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long, mobile shots tell almost wordless stories. In Havana, Maria faces shame when a man who fancies her discovers how she earns her living. Pedro, an aging peasant, is summarily told that the land he farms has been sold to United Fruit. A university student faces down a crowd of swaggering U.S. sailors and then watches friends shot by police when they try to distribute a pro-Castro leaflet. The war arrives on the doorstep of peasants Mariano, Amelia, and their four children when Batista's forces bomb the hills. Mariano wants peace, so he seeks out the guerrillas to join the fight. Discussion guest: Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
Guest List
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poet
- Battleship Potemkin
- Friday, May 15 - 12:00am
- Saturday, May 16 - 12:00am
- Sunday, May 17 - 12:00am
- Mother
- Friday, May 15 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, May 16 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, May 17 - 9:30pm
- Friday, May 22 - 12:00am
- Saturday, May 23 - 12:00am
- Sunday, May 24 - 12:00am
- The New Babylon
- Friday, May 22 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, May 23 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, May 24 - 9:30pm
- Friday, May 29 - 12:00am
- Saturday, May 30 - 12:00am
- Sunday, May 31 - 12:00am
- The End of Saint Petersburg
- Friday, May 29 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, May 30 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, May 31 - 9:30pm
- Friday, June 5 - 12:00am
- Saturday, June 6 - 12:00am
- Sunday, June 7 - 12:00am
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World
- Friday, June 5 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, June 6 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, June 7 - 9:30pm
- Battleship Potemkin
- Friday, May 8 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, May 9 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, May 10 - 9:30pm
- Los Inundados / Flooded Out
- Friday, May 1 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, May 2 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, May 3 - 9:30pm
- Friday, May 8 - 12:00am
- Saturday, May 9 - 12:00am
- Sunday, May 10 - 12:00am
- Los Olvidados
- Friday, April 24 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, April 25 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, April 26 - 9:30pm
- Friday, May 1 - 12:00am
- Saturday, May 2 - 12:00am
- Sunday, May 3 - 12:00am
- The Four Days of Naples
- Friday, April 17 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, April 18 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, April 19 - 9:30pm
- Friday, April 24 - 12:00am
- Saturday, April 25 - 12:00am
- Sunday, April 26 - 12:00am
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew
- Sunday, April 12 - 12:00am
- The Walls of Malapaga
- Saturday, April 11 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, April 12 - 9:30pm
- Friday, April 17 - 12:00am
- Saturday, April 18 - 12:00am
- Sunday, April 19 - 12:00am
