Asamblea general
director:
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
actor:
Fidel Castro
genre:
Documentary
region:
United States
language:
Spanish
length: 14m
release date: 1960-07-01
IMDb: tt0207315
Asamblea general
Overview
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.