Soy Cuba

What an absolutely fascinating film. Pure propaganda for the then newly victorious revolutionary government of Cuba, funded by the Soviet Union and created with both Cuban and Soviet creatives (directed by the Cannes Palme d’Or director Mikhail Kalatozov), and absolutely engrossing from a technical standpoint, the film doesn’t quite reach as high from a narrative point of view.

Four separate vignettes that tie together thematically about the need to rise against the American proletariat, som...