Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

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Born December 11, 1928· Havana, Cuba

† Died April 16, 1996

24Filmography★ 6.9Average rating

Raised in an affluent, politically progressive Havana family, he earned a law degree at the University of Havana before studying cinema at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, where Italian neorealism left a lasting imprint. Returning to Cuba after the 1959 Revolution, he co-founded the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) and helped launch its first fiction titl…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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Filmography

Features 17

Short films 7