El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución

Release Date: 2013-11-01

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.3 / 10

Cast

Santiago Álvarez

as Santiago Alvarez

Daniel Díaz Torres

as

Alfredo Guevara

as

Lázara Herrera

as