
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.
- Year: 2013
- Country: Argentina, Cuba
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Grupo de Cine Insurgente, ICAIC
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- Director: Fernando Krichmar, Alejandra Guzzo
- Cast: Santiago Álvarez, Daniel Díaz Torres, Alfredo Guevara, Lázara Herrera