Santiago Álvarez Movies

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

An obituary for Victor Jara, the Chilean folksinger who was murdered in a football stadium by the military junta during the days of the September...

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)...

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

Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half...

A chronicle of Fidel Castro's two-month tour of ten East European and African nations in mid-1972.

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...

News report on the seven years of the Cuban Revolution.

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,...

Short documentary on the solidarity of the Cuban people with Vietnam during the war against the United States.

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

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

Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.

Political satire on the defeat suffered by the North American and Saigon forces in the south of Laos in February 1971.

A portrait of the great radical Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez.

Santiago Álvarez and his team are talking with Salvador Allende (alongside his daughter Beatriz), who has just been elected President of the...

Recollections of Fidel Castro's visit to Chile on November, 1971, and of the historical imperialist exploitation of Latin America.

A tribute to Santiago Álvarez, a great innovator in the language of Cuban newsreel images, presented by the ICAIC over the course of thirty...

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