Film Che Guevara Revolution

Film Che Guevara Revolution

Young people wear T-shirts with a portrait of Che Guevara but many of them don´t know who was this man. More information about him brings a film Che Guevara Revolution, what is an autobiography of Ernesto Guevara or el Che, a doctor and one of the lead persons of the Cuban revolution. This drama lasts two hours and lead roles plays Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara and Demian Bichir as Fidel Castro.

The film made a producer Steven Soderbergh, whose films were awarded by a few Oscars.

He has produced 18 famous films. Che Guevara is first film, where he worked as a camera-man, too. He used new type of a camera named RED.

„Che beckons me as a film theme, because his life is like an adventurous story,“ says a producer.

A film is consists of two parts. First part, named Che-Argentine is about collaboration Che and Fidel Castro and about overthrowing a dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Second part, Che-Guerilla, describes a time, when Che,a theorist and strategist of Guerilla´s fight became a hero of socialist revolutionist movement and he died in a fight in Bolivia.

Socialist revolutionist and leader of Cuban guerillas, Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna(1928 – 1967) was born in aristocratic family living in Argentina. He graduated a medicine in Buenos Aires and he comes to Castro´s army as a doctor. Then he became a member of Castro´s 26th of July Movement, what came to power in 1959 in Cuba. Guevara obtained Cuban citizenship at the same year, he was member of Castro´s government on various positions and he gradually rose to became a Castro´s “right hand“. He was a president of Cuban national bank and he managed ministry of industry later. He left because of conflicts with Castro and he continued in spreading of revolution abroad. Unfortunately, American CIA organized military operation in Bolivia, where he was captured and executed.

Guevara´s nickname CHE come from a word „che“, used in Argentina and Bolivia, and it means „hey“. Guevara often used this word and his Cuban companions considered it an interesting element of his speech.

Guevara is still popular icon for left militants at the present. He´s considered a ideal of pacific idealism, but it´s not true, because he always prefered militant opposition and he even was responsible for killing of political opponents.

„He´s symbol of young rebellion and idealism and I think, these two things are eternal,“ notes Laura Bickford, one of the producers of the film.

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