Santiago Álvarez
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday18 March 1919
Died20 May 1998 (age 79)
Place of birthHavana, Cuba
Known credits57
Biography
Santiago Álvarez Román (March 8, 1919 – May 20, 1998) was a Cuban documentary filmmaker and a central figure in revolutionary Latin American cinema. After studying in the United States, he returned to Cuba in the mid-1940s, where he worked as a music archivist for television and became active in Communist Party circles. Following the Cuban Revolution, he was a founding member of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and went on to direct its influential weekly Latin American Newsreel, shaping a new model of politically engaged documentary production. Álvarez became i…
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2019 · Sound
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución
2013 · Santiago Alvarez
Memória Cubana
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Rocha Que Voa
2002 · Self (voice)
Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez
1999 · Himself
Historia de una Plaza
1989 · Writer
Historia de una Plaza
1989 · Director
Brascuba
1987 · Writer
Brascuba
1987 · Director
Coarse Salt
1984 · Horacio
Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema
1984 · Self
Biografía de un carnaval
1983 · Writer
Biografía de un carnaval
1983 · Director
La marcha del pueblo combatiente
1980 · Director
The Necessary War
1980 · Director
My Brother, Fidel
1977 · Director
My Brother, Fidel
1977 · Writer
El octubre de todos
1977 · Director
El octubre de todos
1977 · Writer
To Die for Your Country Is to Live Forever
1976 · Director
Maputo meridiano novo
1976 · Director
Luanda ya no es de San Pablo
1976 · Writer
Luanda ya no es de San Pablo
1976 · Director
Maputo meridiano novo
1976 · Writer
April in Vietnam in the Year of the Cat
1975 · Director
The First Delegate
1975 · Director
The First Delegate
1975 · Writer
[Opening speech for the retrospective “Cuban Documentary Film”] [excerpt]
1974 · Director
El milagro de la tierra morena
1974
El milagro de la tierra morena
1974 · Director
The Four Bridges
1974 · Director
The New Tango
1973 · Writer
The New Tango
1973 · Director
La hora de los cerdos
1973 · Director
The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die...
1973 · Director
The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die...
1973 · Writer
And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
1973 · Director
And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
1973 · Screenplay
I Am a Son of America
1972 · Director
Che
1972 · Director
The Stampede
1971 · Director
El Drama de Nixon
1971 · Director
¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general?
1971 · Director
Entrevista al presidente Salvador Allende (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano)
1970
Entrevista al presidente Salvador Allende (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano)
1970 · Director
Piedra sobre piedra
1970 · Director
The Servant's Dream
1970 · Director
The Servant's Dream
1970 · Screenplay
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