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FILM DIRECTOR

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

1928 - 1996

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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈlea]; December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. Gutiérrez Alea wrote and directed more than twenty features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic, and political conditions of the country. Gutiérrez's work is representative of a cinematic movement occurring in the 1960s and 1970s known collectively as the New Latin American Cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea has received more than 107,726 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the 776th most popular film director (down from 733rd in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Cuba (down from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Cuban Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ranks 776 out of 1,581. Before him are Dante Ferretti, Edmund Goulding, Richard C. Sarafian, Joseph Vilsmaier, Corey Yuen, and George Marshall. After him are Jerry Schatzberg, František Vláčil, Edgar Wright, Timothy Treadwell, Stuart Rosenberg, and Álex de la Iglesia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ranks 300. Before him are Steingrímur Hermannsson, Minas Avetisyan, Anatoly Filipchenko, Charles David Keeling, Tzannis Tzannetakis, and Pierre Étaix. After him are Sisavath Keobounphanh, Leonid Bronevoy, Giacomo Biffi, Gudrun Pausewang, Eydie Gormé, and Nelson Pereira dos Santos. Among people deceased in 1996, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ranks 165. Before him are Ljuba Welitsch, Imre Kovács, Chen Jingrun, Danilo Alvim, Laurens van der Post, and Alger Hiss. After him are Mikael Tariverdiev, Juan Hohberg, Gottfried von Einem, Vagn Holmboe, Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, and Reinhard Libuda.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ranks 86 out of 248. Before him are José Nápoles (1940), William Levy (1980), Laurel Aitken (1927), Julio Antonio Mella (1903), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), and Dave Lombardo (1965). After him are Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), Calixto García (1839), Benny Moré (1919), Aleida Guevara (1960), Manuel Díaz (1874), and José María Heredia y Heredia (1803).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Cuba

Among film directors born in Cuba, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ranks 1. 

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Filmography

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