El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 1, 2013

Original language

Spanish

Countries

Argentina, Cuba

Production

ICAIC,DOCA Documentalistas argentinos,Grupo de Cine Insurgente

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3344492