El Tigre Saltó y Mató, Pero Morirá... Morirá...
Just want to alert viewers that while this is largely about music & lyrics, there is some graphic violence in this which is not staged, but real life.
Santiago Alvarez
Filmography
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El Tigre Saltó y Mató, Pero Morirá... Morirá...
Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez's hurried response to the 1973 Chilean coup d’état rests upon the music of Victor Jara, the folk singer who was brutally murdered within days after Augusto Pinochet assumed power. Connecting events in Chile to other repressive police crackdowns...Watch Movie
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79 Primaveras
Santiago Alvarez’s portrait of Ho Chi Minh braids beauty and devastation from its opening montage of blooming flowers and bomb clouds. Poring over documentary footage of the Vietnamese leader to search out the signs of bravery, Alvarez tracks Ho's political education from the French communist...Watch Movie
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Hanoi, Martes 13
Santiago Alvarez’s tribute to the Vietnamese people transcends its narrow aim as anti-imperialist agit-prop. Patient documentation of local folkways contextualizes the American military actions as brutal, unnatural incursions. Alvarez’s camera was there when the bombs fell on...Watch Movie
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LBJ
Most definitely an unauthorized biography, Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez scavenges imagery from LIFE magazine, cowboy movies and Playboy to lampoon Lyndon B. Johnson’s tyranny. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King, Jr. are all laid at...Watch Movie
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Hasta la Victoria Siempre
Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez produced this radical newsreel within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara’s death by special request of Fidel Castro himself. Fellow filmmaker and Alvarez admirer Travis Wilkerson accordingly calls it "a pure distillation of the highly...Watch Movie
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Cerro Pelado
Though lesser known than Leni Riefenstahl’s OLYMPIA or Kon Ichikawa’s TOKYO OLYMPIAD, Santiago Alvarez’s tribute to Cuba’s sporting triumphs is no less breathtaking. A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political...Watch Movie
Genres
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Documentary / Art / Performing Arts / Music
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / History
- Documentary / Political
- Documentary / Sport
- Documentary / War
- Drama / Realism / Social Realism
- Fantasy / Dream
- International / Americas / Caribbean / Cuban
- Music / Rockumentary / World Music
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Narrative
- Sport
- War / Vietnam War
Recent Reviews
LBJ
I think this is worth watching if you have a grasp of the politics and want to see something different done to what we normally characterize as the Sixties. I...
Hasta la Victoria Siempre
I was very pleased to see this film. Americans are inundated with anti-Cuban propaganda (maybe me especially since I am from Miami). It is valuable to see something like this,...
Cerro Pelado
If you like your somewhat quaint revolutionary-era Cuban propaganda featuring athletes doing calisthenics on a boat deck, backed by classic songs (¡El Manisero!) and bracketed by menacing shots of US...
Hasta la Victoria Siempre
Piece of junk. I lived the Cuban Revolution, and the fact that Castro would have this brief little thing filmed in honor of his bosom buddy Che Ernesto Guevara shows...