Che!

original title:
Che!
country / year of production:
USA / 1969
original length:
96 min. , color
premiere:
USA: 27 June 1969
D: 13 June 1969
genre:
biography
based on:
director:
Richard Fleischer
film script:
Sy Bartlett , David Karp , Michael Wilson
producer:
Sy Bartlett
cinematographer:
Charles F. Wheeler
editor:
Marion Rothmann
composer:
cast (role):
Omar Sharif (Che Guevara) , Jack Palance (Fidel Castro) , Cesare Danova (Ramon Valdez) , Robert Loggia (Faustino Morales) , Woody Strode (Guillermo) , Omar Sharif , Jack Palance , Cesare Danova , Robert Loggia , Woody Strode
more:
plot synopsis:
The argentinian doctor Ernesto Guevara makes friends with the cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in Mexico and becomes his comrade in usurping against the regime of Batista in Cuba.
The movie deals with Guevaras story from the meeting in Mexico between Castro and Guevara, the revolution in Cuba and the failed attempt of a revolution in Bolivia and Guevaras execution.
keywords:
guerilla warfare , single fighter , based on a true story , revolution , jungle , execution
war:
Cuban Revolutionary War (1953-1959)
literature:
Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989.
remarks:
Critics usually expressed dismay over the movie. It was also included in a list of the 50 worst movies of all time.
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