I Am Cuba

Welcome to Cold War Cinema, a podcast about the shifting cultural, political, and aesthetic currents running through movies made during the Cold War.

Today, we're discussing another Mikhail Kalatozov film, this time the 1964 masterpiece I Am Cuba, or Soy Cuba.

My name is Jason Christian, and I'm joined by Anthony Ballas.

Paul T. Klein couldn't make it today, but we have a special guest with us today to help us tackle this colossal undertaking, Silas Nathan.

US was doing this kind of thing in Vietnam, in Cuba, all over the world, in Angola.

A- a- and this never stopped, but it's incredible to see it unfold before your eyes, and to see how bald-faced the, the lies are, and how, how naked the imperialist rhetoric is in 2026.

Uh, and I guess I wanted to mention all this because that is the context in which I Am Cuba was made, you know? I Am Cuba is a film that grapples with a recent revolutionary victory and how fragile that is, and what was, what was before that, essentially.

What it, what it was...