Most Popular Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Trailers
Total trailers found: 34
26 September 2008
A look at the life and work of Cuban filmmaker Tomas Gutierrez Alea.
01 January 1991
Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home.
02 January 1975
Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel.
01 January 1974
A close-up examination of laborers creating Cuban cigars intercut with artistic advertising labels and postures for those cigars.
01 January 1955
Documentary that portrays the life of a coal-mining town south of Havana, around 1955, prior to the triumph of the revolution.
01 December 1989
Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two young people who are in love communicate through letters written by penman.
01 July 1960
In Asamblea general (1960), the documentary about Fidel's address of the First Declaration of Havana in the Plaza of the Revolution, Alea practises what becomes a sustaining Cuban contribution to documentary.
31 December 1950
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.
31 August 1964
A Haitian son returns from fifteen years in Cuba to find his home village afflicted with the double plague of drought and strife.
01 December 1993
In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego attempts to seduce straitlaced David, an idealistic young communist, and fails dismally.
19 August 1968
In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami.
13 March 1976
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
26 November 1963
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power.
24 August 1983
A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban woman's condition interfere with their relationship.
24 July 1966
A model Cuban revolutionary tragically dies at work and, as a badge of honor, is buried with his labor card in his suit pocket.
27 September 2010
Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island.
01 June 1977
In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.
16 September 2005
Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of cultural collaboration between two nations.
17 December 1962
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set.
03 September 1995
During the 'Special Period', the members of a funeral procession cross paths with truckdrivers who have to take the same route, and begin to talk about God and the world.
06 January 1979
A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown.
30 December 1960
A film about the Cuban Revolution told from three different perspectives.
25 July 1962
Produced by ICAIC in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, "Muerte al invasor" chronicles the three days of fighting at Playa Girón, portraying the rapid mobilization of Cuban forces and civilians against a CIA-backed exile army.
02 January 1972
In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
01 January 1984
Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Fourth episode: in Cuba, the ICAIC, created in the aftermath of the Castro revolution, is at once a film school, a production company and a state cultural branch.
04 August 2002
Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.
01 January 1959
The unfair distribution of land in Cuba encourages the support of the peasants to the revolution.
02 August 1964
A couple faces various difficulties due to the new realities that accompany the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
