El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• Fernando KrichmarWriter
• Fernando KrichmarDirector
• Omar NeriWriter
• Alejandra GuzzoDirector

Cast

• Santiago ÁlvarezSantiago Alvarez
• Daniel Díaz TorresCast
• Alfredo GuevaraCast
• Lázara HerreraCast