Directing · b. 1919 · Havana, Cuba

Santiago Álvarez

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...

Directed
Historia de una Plaza 1989 Brascuba 1987 Biografía de un carnaval 1983 The Necessary War 1980 My Brother, Fidel 1977 El octubre de todos 1977 To Die for Your Country Is to Live Forever 1976 Maputo meridiano novo 1976 Luanda ya no es de San Pablo 1976 The First Delegate 1975 April in Vietnam in the Year of the Cat 1975 The Four Bridges 1974 [Opening speech for the retrospective “Cuban Documentary Film”] [excerpt] 1974 El milagro de la tierra morena 1974 The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die... 1973 The New Tango 1973 La hora de los cerdos 1973 And Heaven Was Taken by Storm 1973 I Am a Son of America 1972 Che 1972 ¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general? 1971 The Stampede 1971 The Servant's Dream 1970 Piedra sobre piedra 1970 Hanoi, Tuesday 13th 1969 79 Springs 1969 Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano No. 466: Celebration of the VI Amateur World Series in the Dominican Republic. Cuba-USA Final. 1969 Take-Off at 18:00 Hours 1969 LBJ 1968 Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 422 1968 The Forgotten War 1967 Hasta la Victoria Siempre 1967 Cerro Pelado 1966 Año 7 (Noticiero No. 290) 1966 Abril de Girón 1966 Now! 1965 Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam 1965 Cyclone 1964 Muerte al invasor 1962 Crisis en el Caribe (Noticiero ICAIC) 1962 Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano 1960
Acting
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución Santiago Alvarez 2013 Memória Cubana Self (archive footage) 2010 Rocha Que Voa Self (voice) 2002 Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez Himself 1999 Coarse Salt Horacio 1984 Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema Self 1984 Towards Unity and Victory 1937
Other Credits
Éter Sound 2019 Carnival Production Manager 1960 El Tomate Producer 1959
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