Santiago Álvarez

Director

He studied in the United States but in the mid-1940s returned to Cuba, where he worked as a music archivist in a television station and participated in Communist Party activities.[1] After the Cuban Revolution he became a founding member of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) and directed its weekly Latin American Newsreel.[2] One of his most famous works, the short Now (1964) about racial discrimination in the US, mixed news photographs and musical clips featuring singer/actress Lena Horne. Other well-known works included the anti-imperialist satire LBJ (1968) and 79 Springs (1969), a poetic tribute to Ho Chi Minh. In 1968,...

Born: March 18, 1919 in Havana, Cuba

Died: May 20, 1998 (Age 79)

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Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
Éter Short Film		Sound	Sound	2019
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución Movie	2.6	Actor	Santiago Alvarez	2013
Memória Cubana Movie	8.4	Actor	Self (archive footage)	2010
Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez Movie	7.5	Actor	Himself	1999
Brascuba Movie		Directing	Director, Writer	1987
Coarse Salt Movie	4.9	Actor	Horacio	1984
Biografía de un carnaval Short Film		Directing	Director, Writer	1983
The Necessary War Movie	7.8	Directing	Director	1980
El octubre de todos Movie		Directing	Director, Writer	1977
My Brother Fidel Short Film	7.1	Directing	Director, Writer	1977
To Die for Your Country Is to Live Forever Short Film		Directing	Director	1976
Maputo: The Ninth Meridian Short Film		Directing	Director, Writer	1976
Luanda ya no es de San Pablo Short Film		Directing	Director, Writer	1976
April in Vietnam in the Year of the Cat Movie	6.9	Directing	Director	1975
El primer delegado Short Film		Directing	Director, Writer	1975
The Four Bridges Movie		Directing	Director	1974
[Opening speech for the retrospective “Cuban Documentary Film”] [excerpt] Movie		Directing	Director	1974
And Heaven Was Taken by Storm Movie	8.3	Directing	Director	1973
El tigre saltó y mató, pero morirá... morirá... Short Film	7.3	Directing	Director, Writer	1973
La hora de los cerdos Short Film		Directing	Director	1973
I Am a Son of America Movie	7.8	Directing	Director	1972
¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina a un general? Short Film	6.8	Directing	Director	1971
La estampida Short Film		Directing	Director	1971
Piedra sobre piedra Movie		Directing	Director	1970
El sueño del pongo Short Film	6.9	Directing	Screenplay, Director	1970

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