Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Known for
Directing
Born
December 11, 1928
Birthplace
Havana, Cuba
Died
April 16, 1996 (aged 67)
Biography
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 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 its social, economic, and political aftermaths in the country.
Best known work
Memories of Underdevelopment
1968
Strawberry and Chocolate
1993
Hello Cubans
1963
Death of a Bureaucrat
1966
One Way or Another
1977
Guantanamera
1995
The Last Supper
1976
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
2005
The Twelve Chairs
1962
The Survivors
1979Filmography
2010
Memória Cubanaas Self (archive footage)
2008
Titón: From Havana to Guantanamera, 1928-1996as Interviewee (archival footage)
2005
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammothas Self (archive footage)
2002
Rocha Que Voaas Self (voice)
1995
GuantanameraDirector, Writer
1995
1993
Strawberry and ChocolateDirector
1991
Con el amor no se juegaDirector
1991
Contigo en la distanciaDirector
1989
Letters from the ParkDirector, Writer
1984
1983
Up to a Certain PointDirector, Screenplay, Story
1979
The SurvivorsDirector, Screenplay
1977
The Other FranciscoWriter
1977
One Way or AnotherDramaturgy
1977
La sexta parte del mundoDirector
1976
The Last SupperDirector, Screenplay
1975
1974
El arte del tabacoDirector
1972
A Cuban Fight Against DemonsDirector, Story, Screenplay
1968
Memories of UnderdevelopmentDirector, Writer
1966
Death of a BureaucratDirector, Story, Screenplay
1964
CumbiteDirector, Writer
1964
1963
Hello Cubansas Self (uncredited)