Hasta la Victoria Siempre

Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez produced this radical newsreel within forty-eight hours of Che Guevaras death by special request of Fidel Castro himself. Fellow filmmaker and Alvarez admirer Travis Wilkerson accordingly calls it a pure distillation of the highly unusual conditions of production that spurred Alvarezs urgent cinema. Incorporating Guevaras own speeches and documentary scraps from the Bolivian campaign, Alvarezs resourcefulness is ever astonishing.