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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, he collaborated with Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas (members of Grupo Cine Liberación) on the four-hour documentary Hora de los hornos, about foreign imperialism in South America. Among the other subjects he explored in his films were the musical and cultural scene in Latin America and the dictatorships which gripped the region. The second chapter of French director Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma is dedicated to Álvarez, amongst others.[3] He died of Parkinson's disease in Havana on May 20, 1998 and was buried there in the Colon Cemetery.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1919-03-18
- event Death Date 1998-05-20
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 1
- info Birth Place Havana, Cuba
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Santiago Álvarez
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Los Ojos de Santiago
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Towards Unity and Victory
1937-01-24
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Memória Cubana
2010-09-27
5
Coarse Salt
1984-02-06
5
Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez
1999-01-01
7.3
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución
movie_edit Directing
7.3
The First Delegate
1975-06-24
7.3
The First Delegate
1975-06-24
7.3
Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
1969-10-03
7.3
Now!
1965-01-01
7.3
79 Springs
1969-12-31
7.3
LBJ
1968-01-01
7.3
My Brother, Fidel
1977-01-01
7.3
The Forgotten War
1967-01-01
7.3
Muerte al invasor
1962-07-25
7.3
The Servant's Dream
1970-01-01
7.3
Hasta la Victoria Siempre
1967-01-01
7.3
The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die...
1973-01-01
7.3
The New Tango
1973-03-14
7.3
The New Tango
1973-03-14
7.3
Cerro Pelado
1966-01-01
7.3
I Am a Son of America
1972-01-02
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Piedra sobre piedra
1970-01-02
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Cyclone
1964-11-14
7.3
¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general?
1971-01-01
7.3
April in Vietnam in the Year of the Cat
1975-01-01
7.3
The Necessary War
1980-01-01
7.3
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano No. 466: Celebration of the VI Amateur World Series in the Dominican Republic. Cuba-USA Final.
1969-01-09
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Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 422
1968-12-01
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The Servant's Dream
1970-01-01
7.3
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano
1960-01-01
7.3
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano
1960-01-01
7.3
Muerte al invasor
1962-07-25
7.3
My Brother, Fidel
1977-01-01
7.3
79 Springs
1969-12-31
7.3
The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die...
1973-01-01
7.3
Take-Off at 18:00 Hours
1969-10-29
7.3
Take-Off at 18:00 Hours
1969-10-29
7.3
El Tomate
1959-01-01
7.3
Carnival
1960-01-01
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Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
1969-10-03
7.3
The Stampede
1971-10-10
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La hora de los cerdos
1973-03-03
7.3
Morir por la patria es vivir
1976-06-06
7.3
The Four Bridges
1974-01-01
7.3
And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
1973-01-01
7.3
Año 7 (Noticiero No. 290)
1966-01-01
7.3
Brascuba
1987-06-25
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Brascuba
1987-06-25
7.3
Crisis en el Caribe
1962-01-01
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Crisis en el Caribe
1962-01-01
7.3
Crisis en el Caribe
1962-01-01
7.3
Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam
1965-01-01
7.3
Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam
1965-01-01
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Abril de Girón
1966-01-01
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Abril de Girón
1966-01-01
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Luanda ya no es de San Pablo
1976-01-01
7.3
Luanda ya no es de San Pablo
1976-01-01
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Maputo meridiano novo
1976-01-01
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Maputo meridiano novo
1976-01-01
7.3
El octubre de todos
1977-01-01
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El octubre de todos
1977-01-01
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Biografía de un carnaval
1983-01-01
7.3
Biografía de un carnaval
1983-01-01
7.3
Historia de una Plaza
1989-01-01
7.3
Historia de una Plaza
1989-01-01
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[Opening speech for the retrospective “Cuban Documentary Film”] [excerpt]
1974-10-01