El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución

A tribute to Santiago Álvarez, a great innovator in the language of Cuban newsreel images, presented by the ICAIC over the course of thirty years. This unique figure in Latin American cinema is reconstructed. Told as a game of Chinese boxes (documentaries within documentaries, authors within authors, images within images), Álvarez's obsession is revealed to be identical to that of his disciples: to confront the reality of Cuba with other realities, staging aesthetic operations that are nevertheless political operations, always in favor of the Revolution.

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

95 min

Cast:

Santiago Álvarez, Daniel Díaz Torres, Alfredo Guevara

Quality:

HD

Director:

Fernando Krichmar, Alejandra Guzzo

Release:

2013

Country:

Argentina, Cuba

Rating:

7.3