[Opening speech for the retrospective “Cuban Documentary Film”] [excerpt]

Original title: [Eröffnungsrede zur Retrospektive „Kubanischer Dokumentarfilm“] [Ausschnitt]

In 1974, the GDR and the Leipzig festival celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution with the “Cuban Documentary Film” retrospective. Santiago Álvarez, vigorous propagandist of documentary film as an art of war against imperialist cinema entertainment, spoke at soporific length at the opening.

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