General Assembly

General Assembly

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 1, 1960

Runtime

0h 14m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

50%

Original Title

Asamblea general

Production Companies

ICAIC

Director

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Description

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.