Santiago Álvarez
Directing
March 18, 1919
Died May 20, 1998 (79 years old)
Havana, Cuba
9
Acting Credits
46
Directed
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 Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and went on to direct its influential weekly Latin Ame...
Known For
Filmography
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución
2013
as Santiago Alvarez
7.3
Memória Cubana
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Rocha Que Voa
2002
as Self (voice)
6.5
Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez
1999
as Himself
5
Coarse Salt
1984
as Horacio
6.7
Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema
1984
as Self
El milagro de la tierra morena
1974
Entrevista al presidente Salvador Allende (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano)
1970
Towards Unity and Victory
1937
7.5