Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Movies

Short documentary about Cuba's resistance to American invasion.

A look at the life and work of Cuban filmmaker Tomas Gutierrez Alea.

Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle...

Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two young people who are in love communicate through letters written by penman. When the young man leaves town, to become a...

The unfair distribution of land in Cuba encourages the support of the peasants to the revolution.

A close-up examination of laborers creating Cuban cigars intercut with artistic advertising labels and postures for those cigars. Silent with musical...

Documentary that portrays the life of a coal-mining town south of Havana, around 1955, prior to the triumph of the revolution.

A short film based on a story by Franz Kafka. Two men meet to resolve an issue, but are unable to do so due to a series of adverse circumstances.

In Asamblea general (1960), the documentary about Fidel's address of the First Declaration of Havana in the Plaza of the Revolution, Alea practises...