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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Highest Rated: 100% Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)

Lowest Rated: 80% Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)

Birthday: Dec 11, 1928

Birthplace: Havana, Cuba

Cuba's greatest and best-known director, Tomas Gutierrez Alea fell in love with cinema at an early age, began as a documentarian much influenced by Italian neo-realism, and fully came into his own as an artist during Fidel Castro's regime. Over the years, he has evinced a fondness for both historical and contemporary fables, invariably politically pointed and satirical, their flights into absurdity showing the influence of Luis Bunuel. An ardent supporter of the revolution which dispatched the despotic Fulgencio Batista and brought Castro to power, Alea has painted a more complex portrait of Cuba in his cinema than the rest of the world has generally been willing to conceive. The documentary impulse has remained, yet it is used to constantly scrutinize contemporary Cuba. Indeed, Alea has made some gutsy critiques of the socioeconomic and political realities of his land, as he ponders the persistence of a petty-bourgeois mentality in a society supposedly dedicated to the plight of the working poor.

Filmography

Movies

Credit
80% 84% Strawberry and Chocolate Director $268.8K 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Letters From the Park Director - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Up to a Certain Point Director - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Survivors Director - 1979
No Score Yet 50% One Way or Another Director,
Writer
- 1977
No Score Yet 81% The Last Supper Director - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Other Francisco Writer - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Cuban Fight Against Demons Director,
Writer
- 1971
92% 84% Memories of Underdevelopment Director - 1968
100% 91% Death of a Bureaucrat Director - 1966
No Score Yet 50% The Twelve Chairs Director - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stories of the Revolution Director,
Writer
- 1960