Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
1928 - 1996
La muerte de un burócrata
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.
Death of a Bureaucrat
Memorias del subdesarrollo
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados
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. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana. He finally meets Elena, a young virgin girl he seeks to mould into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
Memories of Underdevelopment
Fresa y chocolate
Juan Carlos Tabío, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz
Set in 1979, following a young Communist man's relationship with a gay Catholic writer, exploring tolerance, inclusion, homophobia and challenging its Cuban audience with great humour. Based on the short story by Cuban writer Senel Paz.
Strawberry and Chocolate
Los sobrevivientes
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Enrique Santisteban, Juanita Caldevilla
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. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of policital order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery."
The Survivors
Soy Cuba, o mamute Siberiano
Vicente Ferraz
Othon Bastos, Alexander Calzatti
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. Yet the film never found a mass audience, languishing for decades until its reintroduction as a "classic" in the 1990s. Vicente Ferraz explores the strange history of this cinematic tour de force, and the deeper meaning for those who participated in its creation.
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Con el amor no se juega
Carlos García Agraz, José Luis García Agraz
Arcelia Ramírez, Daniel Giménez Cacho
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. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later that day, when looking into the glass, Susana is startled to see the image of a handsome soldier, Nicolas (from 1863), instead of her own reflection. It soon becomes obvious that he can see Susana as clearly as she can see him - and life, for them both, is never quite the same again. Contains three shorts as a trilogy: The Two Way Mirror (El espejo de dos lunas) 1990, 0:29:23 With You from a Distance (Contigo en la distancia) 1991, 0:27:38 Saturday Night Thief (Ladrón de sábado) 1996, 0:24:57
Con el amor no se juega
Guantanamera
Juan Carlos Tabío, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Jorge Perugorría, Mirta Ibarra
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. They discover that life for both groups has many similarities, as well as a lot of differences.
Guantanamera
