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Santiago Álvarez Román (March 8, 1919 – May 20, 1998) was a Cuban documentary filmmaker and a central figure in revolutionary Latin American cinema. After studying in the United States, he returned to Cuba in the mid-1940s, where he worked as a music archivist for television and became active in Communist Party circles. Following the Cuban Revolution, he was a founding member of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and went on to direct its influential weekly Latin American Newsreel, shaping a new model of politically engaged documentary production. Álvarez became i…
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- Now! (1965) Director
- 79 Springs (1969) Director
- LBJ (1968) Director
- Carnival (1960) Production Manager
- Cerro Pelado (1966) Director
- Cyclone (1964) Director
- Éter (2019) Sound
- The First Delegate (1975) Director
- Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema (1984) as Self
- Hasta la Victoria Siempre (1967) Director
- The Tiger Leaps and Kills, But It Will Die... It Will Die... (1973) Director
- The Servant's Dream (1970) Director
- The New Tango (1973) Director
- El Tomate (1959) Producer
- Brascuba (1987) Director
- Primeros Juegos Deportivos Nacionales en Cuba (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano) (1965) Director
- Take-Off at 18:00 Hours (1969) Director
- Biografía de un carnaval (1983) Director
- The Necessary War (1980) Director
- My Brother, Fidel (1977) Director
- Año 7 (Noticiero No. 290) (1966) Director
- Che (1972) Director
- Solidaridad Cuba y Vietnam (1965) Director
- Hanoi, Tuesday 13th (1969) Director
- The Forgotten War (1967) Director
- Valentina Tereshkova visita a Cuba (Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano) (1963) Director
- La marcha del pueblo combatiente (1980) Director
- ¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina un general? (1971) Director
- Muerte al invasor (1962) Editor
- Coarse Salt (1984) as Horacio
- The Stampede (1971) Director
- Memória Cubana (2010) as Self (archive footage)
- El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución (2013) as Santiago Alvarez
- Crisis en el Caribe (Noticiero ICAIC) (1962) Director
- And Heaven Was Taken by Storm (1973) Director
- Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano (1960) Director
- Luanda ya no es de San Pablo (1976) Director
- Towards Unity and Victory (1937) Cast
- I Am a Son of America (1972) Director
- April in Vietnam in the Year of the Cat (1975) Director
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