Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was born in Havana on 11 December 1928. A law graduate of the University of Havana in 1951, he then studied cinema at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome, where he discovered neorealism, and made El Mégano with Julio García Espinosa. Co-founder in 1959 of the Cuban film institute, he made there Historias de la Revolución, Muerte de un burócrata, Memorias del subdesarrollo, La última cena, Hasta cierto punto and, with Juan Carlos Tabío, Guantanamera. He died in Havana on 16 April 1996.

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• Feature filmStrawberry and ChocolateFresa y chocolateTomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío · 1993Cinema