Humberto Solás Movies

The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.

In his award-winning film Lucía, Humberto Solás interpreted the theme of Cuba’s hundred years' struggle in an entirely novel way...

The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed,...

Javier Argüelles, an opportunistic young man from Cuban middle class, survives all kind of political changes in Havana, from 1932 to 1959, while...

Follows the story of three privileged Creole orphans from Havana, as they meet French adventurer Victor Hugues and get involved in the revolutionary...

A mercenary from the Bay of Pigs invasion escapes in search of protection and is taken in by a peasant woman who ignores his identity.

A look at the life and work of Cuban filmmaker Tomas Gutierrez Alea.

SIMPARELE is history interpreted through people's art. The film synthesizes the primary forms through which the Haitian people have expressed...

Over several years, we follow three households and their emotions in a barrio of Havana. Magalis is a nurse, rarely happy. An older man, Ignacio,...

It is the story of a young man named Esteban, who was totally devoted to the cause of the Revolution against Fulgencio Batista. One day, Esteban is...

A short 1962 black & white gem by Cuban director Humberto Solás, with Hector Veita, about creating the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte (National...

When his father dies, a Cuban man who was raised in the United States, learns that he was not abandoned by his mother but illegally taken out of...

In 1914, during World Ward I, Amada, a bourgeois wife, falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a young idealist who is fighting against the Cuban...

A documentary about the 1968 film Lucía, featuring its director, Humberto Solás, and members of his cast and crew.

Birth registration ceremonies in Leningrad, in which representatives of the city's Supreme Soviet present medals and allegorical documents.

The music band Síntesis recreates the Yoruba music, a key part of Cuban cultural heritage, and fuses it with rock sounds. The result is a new...

A young girl joins the guerrilla

A painter in search of inspiration pursues an imaginary woman whose portrait he finds in an abandoned house.