General Assembly

Documentary · 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. 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.

Starring

Néstor Almendros, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Fidel Castro, Ramón F. Suárez, Jorge Haydú, Arturo Agramonte

Director

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea