Santiago Álvarez Movies

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

Short documentary recounting the history of the Santiago de Cuba carnival.

A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In...

Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma,...

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...

Portrait of the Angolan people.

News report on the seven years of the Cuban Revolution.

Produced by ICAIC in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, "Muerte al invasor" chronicles the three days of fighting at Playa Girón,...

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 portrait of the great radical Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez.

An educational documentary film about planting and harvesting tomatoes.

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

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...

A report on the visit to Cuba by Valentina Tereškova, the first woman to fly in space and the first Soviet cosmonaut. As the (unidentified)...

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,...

The opening ceremony of the First National Sports Games in Cuba. A runner carrying the Olympic torch enters the stadium while hundreds of flag...

Documentary short about the death of Chilean general René Schneider by the CIA, following the election of Salvador Allende as president of the...

With a speech by Fidel Castro as the central theme, the effects of the terrorist attacks against the interests of the Cubana de Aviacion company are...