Hasta la victoria siempre

Cuba

1967

19 Min

Black and White

Spanish

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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ED Idalberto Gálvez, Norma Torrado

An obituary of Che Guevara, made in forty-eight hours to be shown at the mass meeting on the 18th October 1967 in the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana, where Fidel Castro announced the death of Guevara in Bolivia. The film contains archive material and excerpts from Che Guevara’s speech at the U.N. on the 11th December 1964. Music “Suite Heroies de Las Americas” by Villalobos. —BFI

Director

Santiago Álvarez

Santiago Álvarez Román (March 18, 1919– May 20, 1998) was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed many documentaries about Cuban and American culture. His “nervous montage” technique of using “found materials,” such as Hollywood movie clips, cartoons, and photographs, is considered a precursor to the modern video clip.

He studied in the United States but in the mid-1940s returned to Cuba, where he worked as a music archivist in a television station and participated in Communist Party activities.After the Cuban Revolution he became a founding member of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) and directed its weekly Latin American Newsreel.

One of his most famous works, the short Now (1964) about racial discrimination in the USA, mixed news photographs and musical clips featuring singer/actress Lena Horne. Other well-known works included the anti-imperialist satire LBJ (1968) and 79 Springs (1969), a poetic tribute to Ho Chi Minh. In 1968, he collaborated with Octavio Getino and… read more