Santiago Álvarez
DirectingBorn: March 18, 1919 in Havana, Cuba
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 Institut...
All Credits53 Titles
Film
53 Titles
6.7
FILM
Coarse Salt1984
6.3
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Now!1965
6.6
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Hanoi, Tuesday 13th1969
6.1
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79 Springs1969
5.8
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¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general?1971
FILM
Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema1984
6.0
FILM
The Necessary War1980
FILM
Memória Cubana2010
5.6
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The Servant's Dream1970
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El milagro de la tierra morena1974
5.9
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LBJ1968
6.0
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I Am a Son of America1972
6.8
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The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die...1973
5.6
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April in Vietnam in the Year of the Cat1975
5.9
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Muerte al invasor1962
7.3
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El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución2013