Manuel Octavio Gómez

Manuel Octavio Gómez was born in Havana on 14 November 1934. A journalist and film critic, a member of the Visión film club, he joined after the revolution the section that became the Cuban film institute, as an assistant on the first documentaries and on Gutiérrez Alea's Historias de la Revolución. He moved on to fiction with El encuentro in 1964, then made Los días del agua, Ustedes tienen la palabra and El señor presidente, often with the cinematographer Jorge Herrera. He died on 2 January 1988.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe First Charge of the MacheteLa primera carga al macheteManuel Octavio Gómez · 1969Cinema