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 Ame…
Known For
Now!
Director
Hasta la Victoria Siempre
Director
79 Springs
Director
LBJ
Director
Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
Director
The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die...
Director
Muerte al invasor
Editor
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución
Santiago Alvarez
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Filmography
Acting (9)
Movies (9)
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución
2013as Santiago Alvarez
Memória Cubana
2010as Self (archive footage)
Rocha Que Voa
2002as Self (voice)
Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez
1999as Himself
Coarse Salt
1984as Horacio
Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema
1984as Self
El milagro de la tierra morena
1974
Towards Unity and Victory
1937 Los Ojos de Santiago
Crew (49)
Movies (49)
Éter
2019Sound
Historia de una Plaza
1989Writer
Brascuba
1987Writer
Biografía de un carnaval
1983Director
The Necessary War
1980Director
La marcha del pueblo combatiente
1980Director
El octubre de todos
1977Director
My Brother, Fidel
1977Director
To Die for Your Country Is to Live Forever
1976Director
Luanda ya no es de San Pablo
1976Director
Maputo meridiano novo
1976Director
April in Vietnam in the Year of the Cat
1975Director
The First Delegate
1975Director
The Four Bridges
1974Director
[Opening speech for the retrospective “Cuban Documentary Film”] [excerpt]
1974Director
El milagro de la tierra morena
1974Director
And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
1973Director
The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die...
1973Director
The New Tango
1973Writer
La hora de los cerdos
1973Director
I Am a Son of America
1972Director
Che
1972Director
¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general?
1971Director
The Stampede
1971Director
Piedra sobre piedra
1970Director
The Servant's Dream
1970Director
Take-Off at 18:00 Hours
1969Writer
Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
1969Director
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano No. 466: Celebration of the VI Amateur World Series in the Dominican Republic. Cuba-USA Final.
1969Director
79 Springs
1969Director
LBJ
1968Director
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 422
1968Director
The Forgotten War
1967Director
The Forgotten War
1967Screenplay
Hasta la Victoria Siempre
1967Director
Cerro Pelado
1966Director
Año 7 (Noticiero No. 290)
1966Director
Abril de Girón
1966Director
Abril de Girón
1966Writer
Now!
1965Director
Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam
1965Director
Cyclone
1964Director
Muerte al invasor
1962Editor
Crisis en el Caribe
1962Director
Crisis en el Caribe
1962Producer
Crisis en el Caribe
1962Writer
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano
1960Director
Carnival
1960Production Manager
El Tomate
1959Producer
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