Octavio Cortázar

Octavio Cortázar Jiménez was born in Havana on 19 January 1935. Coming from television, he joined the Cuban film institute in 1959 as a production assistant, worked on Gutiérrez Alea's Historias de la Revolución, then organised and directed the Encyclopédie populaire, a series of short educational films. From 1963 to 1967 he studied directing at the film faculty in Prague; back in Cuba, he made mostly documentaries, including Por primera vez in 1967, and several issues of the institute's Latin American newsreel. He died in Madrid on 27 February 2008.

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• Feature filmThe TeacherEl brigadistaOctavio Cortázar · 1977Cinema