Santiago Álvarez Movies

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...

CICLÓN is a coverage of hurricane Flora's sweeping the Cuban provinces of Camagüey and Oriente in October 1963: the damage, the...

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...

A portrait of the great radical Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez.

This film confronts the failures of the Cuban economy, although it is made in a Guevara-like spirit of moral exhortation rather than criticism.

Filmed in Cuba, a documentary about communism in Cuba

Political satire on the defeat suffered by the North American and Saigon forces in the south of Laos in February 1971.

The New Tango (El Nuevo Tango) was not shown in Argentina for a long time as it deals with the ascent of Argentinean president Hector Campora in May...

A chronicle of Fidel Castro's two-month tour of ten East European and African nations in mid-1972.

Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.

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,...

In September 1968, Fidel Castro comments on the suppression of the Prague Spring in surprisingly critical terms. He opens his thunderous speech with...

A short film by Santiago Alvarez

Short film by Santiago Alvarez