General Assembly (1960)

Release Date: 1960-07-01
Runtime: 0h 14min
Director: Tom&aacute;s Guti&eacute;rrez Alea

In Asamblea general (1960), the documentary about Fidel's address of the First Declaration of Havana in the Plaza of the Revolution, Alea practises what becomes a sustaining Cuban contribution to documentary. Engaging with Free Cinema and cinema-vérité, his camera seems to touch the faces of the new citizen one by one rather than as a single mass before a leader.