Santiago Álvarez Movies

The short film El primer delegado (The First Delegate), made by a group of ICAIC directors, recounts the moments in which José Martí...

Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.

In December 1967, a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, travelled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this...

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

Follows the Cuban leader into the home of a 93 year old acquaintance of Jose Marti, who is now blind and who takes the duration of the film to...

Los Ojos de Santiago retraces the filmmaking career of Álvarez, particularly his work in Vietnam and Cuba.

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...

A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle....

An obituary for Victor Jara, the Chilean folksinger who was murdered in a football stadium by the military junta during the days of the September...

Documentary about the earthquake that devastated the Yungai area on May 31, 1970, which killed more than 40,000 Peruvians.

Documentary film on the end of the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon and the departure of American troops, as well as a tracing of 4000 years of...

In 1974, the GDR and the Leipzig festival celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution with the “Cuban Documentary Film”...

Documenting news all over Latin America.

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