Santiago Álvarez — Playwright (3)

Movie

The First Delegate (1975)
El primer delegado IMDb TMDB
other title: El primer delegado
The short film El primer delegado (The First Delegate), made by a group of ICAIC directors, recounts the moments in which José Martí announced the foundations and statutes of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, the tireless struggle that the hero sustained throughout his life to obtain independence, his gifts as a political organizer, the final founding of the party, of which he was the first delegate, and his offer to General Máximo Gómez of the military leadership of the insurrection, the final founding of the party, of which he was the first delegate, and his offer to General Máximo Gómez of the military leadership of the insurrection, all narrated live by an announcer who entertains with his reading the work of the cigar makers in a tobacco factory, until the documentary reaches its final climax: the symbolic reconversion of the old Marti's party into a new one.

Movie

The Tiger Leaps and Kills, but it Will Die... It Will Die... (1973)
El tigre saltó y mató, pero morirá... morirá... IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: 老虎跳跃和杀戮,但它会死……它会死…… / El tigre saltó y mató, pero morirá... morirá... …
Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez's hurried response to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état rests upon the music of Victor Jara, the folk singer who was brutally murdered within days after Augusto Pinochet assumed power. Connecting events in Chile to other repressive police crackdowns throughout the world (and specifically to C.I.A. malfeasance), Alvarez calls for solidarity in a characteristically bravura choreography of text and image.