Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Date of Birth: 11 Dec 1928
Country: Cuba
Biography: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed more than twenty features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic, and political conditions of the country.
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 13 (Director), 9 (Writer)
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Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinary ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is the story of a great friendship, that is, a great love between two men, which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance.
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna. (imdb)
It is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers who have to take the same route begin to talk about god and the world ending up in discovering that life for both groups has many similarities as well as a lot of differences depending on the point of view. (imdb)
A Cuban version of the famous Soviet novel of the same name. An impoverished businessman, learning of some jewels hidden in one of twelve chairs, schemes to get them, aided by a con man and in competition with a greedy priest.
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. (imdb)
An aristocratic countryside family wakes up to find all of their servants gone and must tend their land and household themselves.
During Holy Week at the end of the eighteenth century, a count visits his Havana sugar mill on a day a slave has run away. The count tells his cruel overseer, Don Manuel, to pick 12 slaves who will be guests at the count's table. Don Manuel objects, but to no avail. The twelfth guest is the recaptured runaway. During the dinner, using religious analogies, the count lectures his guests on the perfect happiness possible in slavery. They in turn tell stories and make requests. (imdb)
A film about the Cuban Revolution told from three different perspectives. (mubi.com)
Asamblea general (1960) - Short Film
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. Engaging with Free Cinema and cinema-vérité, his camera seems to touch the faces of the new citizen one by one rather than as a single mass before a
leader.
In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. (imdb)
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 pilot, the girl discovers she is really in love with the one who wrote the letters. (Edgar Soberon Torchia)
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. (Letterboxd)