Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Director, Writer

December 11, 1928 — April 16, 1996 (67 years)
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.

Known For

  • Strawberry and Chocolate
    Strawberry and Chocolate1993
  • Memories of Underdevelopment
    Memories of Underdevelopment1968
  • Guantanamera
    Guantanamera1995
  • Death of a Bureaucrat
    Death of a Bureaucrat1966
  • The Last Supper
    The Last Supper1976
  • The Twelve Chairs
    The Twelve Chairs1962
  • One Way or Another
    One Way or Another1977
  • Cumbite
    Cumbite1964
  • Con el amor no se juega
    Con el amor no se juega1991

Filmography

1995
1988
1983
Hasta cierto punto · as Screenplay
1979
Los sobrevivientes · as Screenplay
1976
The Last Supper · as Screenplay
1975
1974
1968
1964
1962
The Twelve Chairs · as Screenplay
1960
Stories of the Revolution · as Screenplay

2010
Memória Cubana · as Self (archive Footage)
2004
I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth · as Self (archive Footage)
2002
Stones in the Sky · as Self (voice)
1968
1963
Salut les Cubains · as Self (uncredited)

1993
Strawberry & Chocolate · as Collaboration
1972
1966