Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, known as Titón to Cubans, was a filmmaker born in Havana on December 11, 1928. He passed away on April 16, 1996, in his hometown.

He graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Law (1951). In 1953, he completed his studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematographia in Rome, where, alongside Julio García Espinosa, he filmed his first medium-length document…