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Summary:

FIDEL provides a unique view of Cuba's controversial and most polarizing leader. In 1968, Castro took filmmaker and activist Saul Landau on a week-long jeep ride through the eastern mountains.There, he plays baseball with a group of peasants, visits his pre-school and trades jokes with a 98-year old man. Fidel also listens to the people's concerns about food distribution, bad roads, and transportation. Landau captures Cuba's revolutionary chief early in the morning in his tent. The camera zooms in on his dirty and delicate fingernails holding his trademark cigar while he tells a story of Símon Bolivar and offers tactical advice to guerrilla warriors throughout the Third World.The film contains rare and fascinating archive footage of the Bay of Pigs invasion and scenes of Che Guevara alongside interviews with political prisoners. Spectacular photography and editing with hot Cuban music provide the cinematic aesthetics that give this film beautiful form to accompany its exciting content.

Contributors:

Saraf, Irving , director

Landau, Saul , director, producer, screenwriter

Cinema Libre Studio , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Documentary Film Company Ltd. , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Languages:

English
Spanish

Language Notes:

In English and Spanish with English subtitles.

Subjects:

Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016

Heads of state — Cuba

Cuba — Politics and government — 1959-1990

1959-1990

Politics and government

Heads of state

Cuba

Genres:

Documentary films

Online media

Internet videos

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 21, 2018).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (96 mins.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

1035417411

Other Control Numbers:

3916057 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3916057/avon