This Friday, 24th November, 6.30pm Warehouse cafe / Friends of the Earth 54 Allison St B5 5TH FREE / Donation
Soy Cuba – I am Cuba
is a 1964 Cuban-Soviet political drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. An international co-production between the Soviet Union and Cuba, it was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public, and was almost completely forgotten until it was re-discovered by filmmakers in the United States some thirty years later. The acrobatic tracking shots and idiosyncratic mise en scene and extraordinary black and white effects prompted Martin Scorsese and others to begin a campaign to restore the film in the early 1990s. It has since become a classic of early revolutionary Cuban cinema.
The movie consists of four distinct short stories about the suffering of the Cuban people and their reactions, varying from passive amazement and exploitation in the first, through anger at the injustice of global politics (before the Revolution), through to the student resistance of the 50s and triumphant guerilla march in the finale. Between the stories, a female narrator (credited as “The Voice of Cuba”) says such things as, “I am Cuba, the Cuba of the casinos but also of the people.”
See you there if you can make it!
Date for your diary Saturday 16th December 7pm – 9.30 Pre xmas social at Son Caney, Fazeley St
Food and drinks from the bar, entertainment, quiz, batter the blockade!
Followed by dancing from 9.30pm on the Son Caney dance floor.
Free / donation for solidarity, helping send another container of desperately needed medical supplies to Cuba.
If you can put out any A5 leaflets, get back in touch and we will get them to you. The attached leaflet / poster can be printed for a notice board. Thanks!
CSC Birmingham group
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