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Rating
6.0
The Film

General Assembly

The Story

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.

Runtime

14 min

Released Jul 1960
The Ensemble 8
Activity

Performance