El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución

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.

Director: Alejandra Guzzo, Fernando Krichmar

Cast: Santiago Álvarez, Daniel Díaz Torres, Alfredo Guevara, Lázara Herrera

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