Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A prostitute solicits in a posh nightclub but lives in a derelict slum in Havana while a disenfranchised sugarcane farmer is driven to burn his precious produce in despair An angst-ridden student ponders the use of violence as means of resistance & an apolitical peasant is driven to join Castro s brigades These four episodes narrated by a woman who identifies herself as Cuba chart the course of a nation&s fate from colonialist subjugation to popular revolution I Am Cuba is a singular collective endeavour A Soviet-Cuban production it boasts the talents of poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko as screenwriter & represents the aesthetic summit of cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky & director Mikhail Kalatozov&s collaboration (the duo had previously made The Cranes Are Flying & The Letter Never Sent) The film&s elaborately conceived & painstakingly choreographed camera set-ups are without parallel in film history Initially commissioned as propaganda its technical tour-de-force has made it a cult film earning admiration from film-makers Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) & Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver Raging Bull)