Movies: Santiago Álvarez
- 1965
Now! (1965)
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Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful bursts of propaganda rendered in the 1960s....
- 1984
Coarse Salt (1984)
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A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In this situation, your manager will provide a time extension...
- 1969
79 Springs (1969)
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This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism....
- 1968
LBJ (1968)
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This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed by Lyndon Johnson as the dark figure who is plotting the anti-black rights movement....
- 1967
Hasta la Victoria Siempre (1967)
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An obituary of Che Guevara, made in forty-eight hours to be shown at the mass meeting on the 18th October 1967 in the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana, where Fidel Castro announced the death of Guevara in Bolivia....
- 1959
El Tomate (1959)
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- 1969
Hanoi, Tuesday 13th (1969)
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In December 1967 a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, traveled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this short documentary all in one day - Tuesday 13. The film is the story of that day, and what happened to...
- 1960
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano (1960)
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Documenting news all over Latin America....
- 1987
Brascuba (1987)
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- 1964
Cyclone (1964)
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CICLÓN is a coverage of hurricane Flora's sweeping the Cuban provinces of Camagüey and Oriente in October 1963: the damage, the evacuation of the villages, and the aid to victims....
- 1980
The Necessary War (1980)
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Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma, Haydee, Celia and Faustino Perez, among other key players in the Revolution....
- 1973
And Heaven Was Taken by Storm (1973)
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A chronicle of Fidel Castro's two-month tour of ten East European and African nations in mid-1972....
- 1962
Muerte al invasor (1962)
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Short documentary about Cuba's resistance to American invasion....
- 1976
Luanda ya no es de San Pablo (1976)
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- 2010
Memória Cubana (2010)
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Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and unde...
- 1971
¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general? (1971)
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Documentary short about the death of Chilean general René Schneider by the CIA, following the election of Salvador Allende as president of the nation....
- 1999
Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez (1999)
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A portrait of the great radical Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez....
- 1967
The Forgotten War (1967)
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Focuses on the history of foreign intervention in Laos, first by France and then by the United States. It shows how the liberation forces of Laos, under continuous U.S. bombing, were able to run an entire society in hidden caves and tunnels. Through ...
- 1937
Towards Unity and Victory (1937)
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Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War....
- 1970
The Servant's Dream (1970)
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An ordinary man goes to work in a rich household of Peru and has a dream in which he sees his boss and himself appearing as equal in front of the Archangel before going to heaven... Based on a tale by Jose Maria Argueda...