Director: Rohan Raj | Stars: Ajay, … People got emotional about it. Che! The film is divided into two parts. ), 7. For those who like Che quotes he was also quoted in 1962 by the editor of the RevolucÍon, Carlos Franqui, as saying “We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. was listed in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (1978). I'm ashamed to be part of this tyranny of ignorance. "[6] Che! Lol...the absolute most basic research of the contemporary radical Left will inform you that Stalinism is overwhelmingly held to be a cruel, bureaucratic, state-capitalist regime that forever tarnished the communist name. The medical student’s experience at a so-called leper colony on the Amazon is transcendental. Guevara’s battlefield prowess is displayed as he becomes a comandante of the Revolution. However, you haven’t lived until you see [cowboy star Jack] Palance play Fidel Castro.”. "For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another." He gave in so easily. Karl Shiels, who appeared in  “Batman Begins”(2005), plays Che and John Hurt (“1984”) is the Man from Maybury Hill. [11], All compositions by Lalo Schifrin except as indicated. Despite being a guerrilla warrior Che famously said: “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”. “El ‘Che’”   is the first feature to portray Guevara’s failed Bolivian expedition, but was made prior to the release of his famed diary, so the 1968 movie’s accuracy is highly questionable. North American actor John Ireland (who appeared in “Spartacus” and the “Rawhide” TV series) co-starred in this 1968 Italian production. Stone went on to direct three documentaries about Fidel Castro. Those persons executed by Guevara or on his orders were condemned for the usual crimes punishable by death at times of war or in its aftermath: desertion, treason or crimes such as rape, torture or murder. They join forces, embark on the Granma yacht, survive the disastrous landing back at Cuba where they proceed to wage guerrilla warfare in the Sierra Maestra. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the apostle of guerrilla warfare and world revolution, was killed forty-seven years ago in Bolivia on October 9, 1967 at the age of thirty-nine. The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Create One, Two, Three, Many Guevaras: “EL ‘CHE’ GUEVARA” aka “BLOODY CHE GUEVARA”. Che is a 2008 biopic about Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro as Che. 9. (Here's a Spanish language version of the entire movie.). (According to a news clip, bad weather actually forced Che’s jet to stop in Ireland, where some of Che’s ancestors originally came from.) is abundant evidence that no one connected with this stinkeroo gave a damn about Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution or anything else requiring more than five seconds' thought". The second part of Soderbergh’s Guevara biopic is absolutely heartbreaking, 135 minutes of pure misery for aficionados of “El Che.” Che again shares writing credits, as “Part II” is based in part on Guevara’s “Bolivian Diary”, and tells the story of his campaign to spread the revolution to South America. You obviously don't know how many people were killed during that time, estimates are 14,000 by the end of the 1960's. In 1964, after his speaking engagement at the U.N., en route to Algiers Guevara’s Cubana flight stopped at Dublin Airport to refuel. There’s spellbinding scenery at places like Machu Picchu, and a Neo-Realist use of indigenous people. ", Richard Lutz Brazilian director Walter Salles’ adaptation is based on the journal Guevara kept (Che again receives a writing credit for the movie) that came to be called “The Motorcycle Diaries”, a sort of Latin American counterpart to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Denouncing leftism based on Stalin is like denouncing democracy based on the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". Be that as it may, Sharif captures Guevara’s bravado and fearlessness in the face of capture and death. The diary details how he and Alberto Granado (played by Rodrigo De la Serna, a distant Che relative) choppered their way across South America. Che’s hands were amputated for fingerprint verification, and he was buried in a secret grave. His biopic of Che Guevara recouped half its budget and his Brad Pitt-starring baseball film was pulled five days before the shoot began. Just find out what the child mortality rate is in each country and consider who is morally just. (See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE9R-SO6yn8 and www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WDo4STRak. THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART ONE” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO. Mr Lutz, If you didn't find anything about what Che did in those 5 years you are a poor excuse for a researcher and what you sighted is questionable, to say the least. The handsome, youthful, cigar-smoking, beret-clad Bohemian-looking revolutionary has become an icon of protest the world over. Steven Soderbergh's epic biography "Che" doesn't feel the need to define him. In this 1996 big screen adaptation of the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (who co-created the “Jesus Christ Superstar” rock opera), Spanish actor Antonio Banderas portrays Che as the counterpoint to his fellow Argentine, Eva Perón (Madonna). : “MEETING CHE GUEVARA & THE MAN FROM MAYBURY HILL”, Irish director Anthony Byrne’s 2003 sci fi, noirish black-and-white short is certainly the most bizarre film to use Che as a character (at least since the 1969 Omar Sharif pic!). I consider our sources for information impeccable and I cannot tell you who they are. Hollywood quickly got into the act when Egyptian Omar Sharif (who’d co-starred in the 1962 desert warfare epic “Lawrence of Arabia”) portrayed the guerrilla leader in a 1969 radical chic exploitation flick aimed at the youth market. Che has inspired numerous documentaries and features. Joining the afflicted, Che casts his lot with les miserables. 4. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer who said before filming: An enormous amount of pressure has been brought to bear on this film – both for and against the subject. By the time the memos from the board of directors got to me, they'd taken out all the pro-Che things. The Spaniard Francisco “Paco” Rabal, who played Luis Bunuel the 1961 classic “Viridiana”, was the first actor of note to strap on a pair of army boots and play the guerrilla leader. Alfredo Ebat, Bobby Bruce, Erno Neufeld, David Frisina, Paul Shure, Marvin Limonick, Alexander Murray, George Mast, Nathan Kaproff, Bonnie Douglas, Anatol Kaminsky, Myra Kestenbaum, Peter Mark, Allan Harshman, Milton Thomas – viola, Raphael Kramer, Edgar Lustgarten, Kurt Rener – cello, Dorothy Remsen, Catherine Gotthoffer – harp, This page was last edited on 15 June 2020, at 09:24. Each group is afraid we're going to favor the other. 3. To celebrate his birthday, Che swims across the river full of deadly creatures that separates those with and without the disease -- the symbolic divide between the First and the Third Worlds -- becoming the first person to ever swim across it. People who idealize Che don't know the first thing about him or what he and Castro did. It should never have been made. It is not written from the point of view of history, but from Guevara's own POV on a day-to-day basis in the process of overthrowing the Batista regime in Cuba and then failing to repeat his success in Bolivia. Because Bolivia is contiguous with numerous other countries on the continent of his birth, he hoped to turn this centrally located nation into a base of operations from which El Comandante would export revolution throughout Latin America. The Article on the Real Che Guevara: First, on who modern socialists think Che Guevara was and their incorrect view of his actions: In film and pop culture, Che comes off as an adventurous motorcyclist, a humble-living commoner, a romantic egalitarian revolutionary, and … Probably because somebody smelled easy money, having been inspired by the sales figures on Che posters. 1. It's too bad the writer of this article and fan's of Che are to lost in the propaganda to actually bother to learn the truth. In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista. To remember and honor this indefatigable champion of the wretched of the Earth, here’s a list of the top ten films about Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna —fallen, but not forgotten. est un film réalisé par Richard Fleischer avec Omar Sharif, Jack Palance. Consider the trials we put the Cubans through before we killed them for being upset we decided to become what we came to liberate them from. Oy Vey: “CHE!” Hollywood quickly got into the act when Egyptian Omar Sharif (who’d co-starred in … Young Ernesto wants to become a doctor to alleviate human suffering, and is serious, honest to a fault and compassionate. America has killed about half of what cuba has killed in our prison system, but we don't try to count all those British we killed during the revolution, nor the Nazianz we killed during the world war, or the Hawaiians, cubans, Puerto ricans, or any number of places we've traveled and literally conquered in imperial blood lust. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation.” another of his was, "Che explained his approach to justice thus: “We don’t need proof to execute a man. [7], Fleischer later said "the picture was a disaster. If, as Mao put it, “the people are the sea and the guerrillas are the fish,” Che’s lack of local support doomed his final struggle. The idiocy surrounding those that try to lump in the people che killed during the revolution is completely assinine. I am not and would never defend Batista, he was horrible, but Castro and Che were monsters Do you know what a G2 is? Count them and consider the people we killed in Vietnam and those Americans we allowed to die. When Castro defeats Cuban dictator Batista after two years of fighting, Guevara directs a series of massive reprisals, yet, Guevara dreams of fomenting a worldwide revolution. The doc has a centrist-to-conservative point of view; Anderson calls Che’s efforts to export revolution an attempt to start “World War III.” The film utilizes reenactments plus great newsreel footage, including the rebels’ triumphant march into Havana where they’re welcomed by joyous crowds. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!” “What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims.” “If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.” I was just wondering- is there a movie on Che- the La Cabana years? In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America. At demonstrations around the globe Che’s image—emblazoned on T-shirts, posters, and tchochkes—is displayed more than that of any other defender of the poor and oppressed. This 200 minute mini-series about Castro’s rise to power originally aired on Showtime in January 2002 in two parts. Why? Critic Paul Brenner stated: "In this badly misconceived pseudo-biography of the legendary Cuban revolutionary—played, incredibly, by Omar Sharif—Che Guevara takes up the cause as a rebel fighter under the direction of Fidel Castro, played—also incredibly—by Jack Palance. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Quels sont les films sur Che Guevara les plus populaires ? Do you know how many people were put in prison because they said something against the government or simply for being gay? “The Assassination of Trotsky” (1972) , directed by blacklisted Joseph Losey with Richard Burton in the title role, is another example. I should add that my research spanned five years, and included anti-Castro Cubans among the Cuban-American exile community in Miami and elsewhere. The New York Times estimated that in the first two months of the Cuban Revolution, there were approximately 528 firing squad executions. Láska k lidstvu, spravedlnosti a pravdě. “Until the Final Victory!”: “HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE”. By the way, If you think Castro was such a "man of the people" then did you know while Cubans suffered living on 20 dollars a month and being asked to work overtime without pay Castro had his own private island? Sign-up for our free weekly e-mail newsletter. His tenacity helps Dr. Castro in toppling the Batista Government. Soderbergh ends the film abruptly, if not stupidly. A fish out of water, Guevara was caught October 8, 1967, by the U.S.-trained and armed Bolivian military, with CIA participation. The producer was no help. Tony Hargrove Che’s debilitating asthma is depicted during a battle scene when his coughing almost gives the rebels’ away. Epic Defeat: “CHE: PART II: GUERRILLA”. Che! This movie has Omar Shariff in the role of Che Guevara and the handsome Egyptian looks the part – he does look Latin American. Che Guevara, Argentine theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution, and guerrilla leader in South America. 10. is a 1969 American biographical film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Omar Sharif as Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. The “lepers” are overjoyed by his act of solidarity, inspired by his compassion and courage -- a wonderful metaphor for who Che became. No trials. After his execution by the Bolivian army, many leftists considered him a martyr, and his image became an icon of leftist radicalism and anti-imperialism. Film critic Roger Ebert panned the film and the motivations for producing the drama, writing: "From the beginning, it sounded like a bad dream. A Christ-like Che refuses to wear latex gloves and befriends the Hansen's disease sufferers. (In 1994 Swiss director Richard Dindo made the documentary “Ernesto Che Guevara, The Bolivian Diary.”. Che is a 2008 film directed by Steven Soderbergh about the life of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, based on his memoirs.It stars Benicio del Toro as Che, alongside Demián Bichir as Fidel Castro, Rodrigo Santoro as Raul Castro, and many others.. ~ Che Guevara, "Che's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. A Basic Doc: “THE TRUE STORY OF CHE GUEVARA”. The Book of Lists (1977) labeled it "a cardboard, pseudo-historical drama" and noted that "Poor Sharif is forced to deliver lines such as 'The peasant is like a flower, and the revolutionary like a bee. Bernal is sublime as Che and, ironically, what may well be the best feature about Guevara is set before he became the face of “the heroic guerrilla.”, 8. ~ Nelson Mandela. Guevara made racist statements. is a 1969 American biographical film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Omar Sharif as Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Découvrez le top des films sur Che Guevara, comme : Carnets de voyage, Che - 1ère partie : L'Argentin, Evita The Progressive Inc. publishes The Progressive magazine plus Progressive.org and Public School Shakedown. In addition to being charismatic, Che was asthmatic, a condition which presumably gave him insight into human suffering, but did not slow him down. A sympathetic screenplay was eviscerated by producer Sy Bartlett in a cold-blooded act of cinemacide… (Happily, the original screenplay has survived. Flawed as the film is, it contrasts Che’s radicalism, spreading the revolution through guerrilla struggles, with the Soviets’ stodgy socialist bureaucratism and closes with news clips of protests inspired by the martyred hero. By the late 1950s, Ernesto Che Guevara began appearing in newsreels, and within less than a year after his death the legendary freedom fighter was spawning cinematic works, depicted by famous actors in fiction films. Che Guevara wrote that we must be "guided by a great feeling of love" for the oppressed, and "strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force". Lesson one in global politics: never believe what the state tells you it is. Unlike 1969’s “Che!” “Fidel” implicates the CIA in Guevara’s capture and execution. [9] By September 1970 Fox estimated they had lost $3,389,000 on the film. To the right, he was a fanatical, bloodthirsty murderer. The Left's infatuation with Che is repulsive and contemptible. I mean seriously this guy rounded up simple farmers and land owners seizing their land and putting them up against a wall to be shot. The July 26 Movement, guerrilla warfare in the Sierra Maestra, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Che’s final mission in Bolivia and beyond are covered in this informative, entertaining docudrama-like production. He went on plunging into jungles when he could have rested on his laurels in an air conditioned office as a bureaucrat in Havana instead. Fidel Castro (Jack Palance) is impressed by Guevara's tactics and discipline and makes him his chief adviser. Guevara actually shares the movie’s writing credits as “Part I” is based in part on his “Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War.” Jsu Garcia, who played Che in 2005’s “The Lost City”, co-stars. “El ‘Che’ Guevara,” directed by the Roman Paolo Heusch and written by Adriano Bolzoni, whose screen credits included spaghetti westerns “A Fistful of Dollars” and “The Mercenary”, co-written by Franco Solinas. Guevara lands in Bolivia, where he attempts to begin his dream of a worldwide peasant revolution, but the Bolivian peasants do not follow his lead and the Bolivian Army pursues him. I'm with you bro!! Che was the left’s James Bond, a swashbuckling Twentieth Century Robin Hood and Sir Galahad. See also "Big Rental Films of 1969", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Che!&oldid=962658737, Films with screenplays by Michael Wilson (writer), Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Simply death. With Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Guevara. Begorra it’s Guevara! It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary." You all are lucky to have the freedom of speech you do. This is a revolution!” “A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. It follows Guevara from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in Bolivia in 1967, although the film does not portray the formative pre-Cuban revolution sections of Che's life as described in the autobiographical book The Motorcycle Diaries (1993).[3]. The movie portrays Che as the action man in the Cuban revolution. Byrne’s enigmatic short is influenced by H.G. This was the trip that was to sculpt his ideals and beliefs on politics, economics and a whole host of other issues. Che - 1ère partie : L'Argentin est un film réalisé par Steven Soderbergh avec Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichir. more than 4 years ago. accounting from 7/10/1967 to 9/10/1967. My favourite Che quote is as follows: "Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Neither can survive or propagate without the other'". "We want to show what happened with the people who touched his life. With Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno. Onscreen sources in Maria Berry’s 90 minute, 2007 documentary include Guevara biographer Jon Lee Anderson, Peter Kornbluh (who recently exposed Henry Kissinger’s purported plan to attack Cuba during the 1970s), Nikita Khrushchev’s son Sergei, Che contemporaries, etc. In Che Guevara’s diary, he wrote of “the blacks” living in Caracas, … The film tells of Che Guevara (Omar Sharif), a young Argentine doctor who proves his mettle during the Cuban guerrilla war in the late 1950s. Does the left also revere Stalin who killed more people in 20 years than Hitler? Thirty years later, Che’s burial site was found, his corpse exhumed and finally laid to rest in Cuba, amidst a popular outpouring. For some strange reason, instead of recreating the famous newsreel footage of the revolutionaries triumphantly entering Havana in victory, en route the jeep-riding Che argues with a fellow rebel whose vehicle is too bourgeois for their caravan. Benicio del Toro jako He gains the respect of his men and becomes the leader of a patrol. (Watch. [10], The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Lalo Schifrin and the soundtrack album was released on the Tetragrammaton label in 1969. Uneasy Rider: “THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES”. Ironically, telewriter Stephen Tolkin also wrote the 1990 movie “Captain America.”, This made-for-TV-movie starred Victor Huggo Martin as Fidel, Tony Plana as dictator Gen. Fulgencio Batista and Gael Garcia Bernal as an extremely determined, if not overzealous, Che, who bravely stares death in the eyes. In  2009, “South of the Border” included interviews with South America’s new left-leaning presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezueala and Bolivia’s Evo Morales, who appear to have reaped the benefits of Guevara’s armed attempt to foment revolution throughout the continent. The first movie, the 134-minute “Che: Part I: The Argentine”, shows how Argentina-born Ernesto Guevara (nicknamed “Che” after the Argentine slang term he often used, which translates as “hey man” or “hey you”) meets an exiled Fidel Castro (Demian Bichir, who was Oscar-nominated for 2011’s “A Better Life”) in Mexico, and immediately realize they are kindred spirits. “Part II” shows how the official, pro-Moscow Bolivian Communist Party turned its back on the Argentine and his band of mostly Cuban fighters. ), In these films and clips various actors portray Ernesto Che Guevara. Aong with Parker and Rice, Oliver Stone shares the movie’s writing credits. That must have been the reason, because Che! This Argentine biopic about Che, which takes its name from one of Guevara’s slogans, was directed by Buenos Aires-born Juan Carlos Desanzo, who was the cinematographer of the acclaimed pro-Third World liberation movement documentary “The Hour of the Furnaces.” Alfredo Vasco portrayed his fellow Argentine Ernesto in this 100 minute feature film, which was apparently shot in Cuba and released on October 9, 1997—the precise thirtieth anniversary of Che’s assassination. Synopsis : Ce film raconte la vie du révolutionnaire cubain Che Guevara depuis son ascension jusqu'à son assassinat. the short film show cases the end days of Che Guevara, His capture and execution. Although a medical doctor, Che takes the lead in attacking and killing the enemy. You can watch the man himself, in his own words, delivering the above-referenced 1964 “Patria O Muerte!” speech at the United Nations in New York, sticking it to the Yanqui imperialists right in “the belly of the beast.”(See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ekfej_kmHQ.”), L.A.-based film historian/reviewer Ed Rampell co-authored the third edition of “The Hawaii Movie and Television Book.”, I tell you this as a Cuban and a grandchild of a political prisoner. It took no sides, which wasn't what we started out to do. Che! http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/truth-about-che-guevara, Love Che Guevara ................... Of the films that I have seen 'The Motorcycle Diaries' was far the best at getting a feeling for the humane motivations of the man who became 'Che'. CHE: PART I and CHE: PART II were terrible despite the very good production values as they ran like documentaries without any narration so you had no idea what they were thinking or their motivation. The film follows the “Barbudos” (bearded ones) as the guerrillas sweep Cuba and rise to power. After Castro backs down during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Guevara accuses Castro of being a Soviet tool and decides to leave Cuba. The original script for “Che!” was by Michael Wilson, who during the Blacklist wrote/co-wrote the 1954 labor classic “Salt of the Earth” and, under assumed names, 1957’s “The Bridge on the River Kwai” and “Lawrence.”, In “Blacklisted, The Film Lover’s Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist” Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner wrote: “Wilson once described this film as his greatest professional disappointment. Do you know they still exist? The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevara’s early diaries fully blossom in this highly readable and often entertaining account of the guerrilla war that led to the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Ernesto gets the History Channel treatment in this nuts and bolts nonfiction film that covers the basics of its subject’s tumultuous life. Hollywood heavyweight Steven Soderbergh released a two-part, far more historically accurate epic about Guevara in 2008, for which Puerto Rican Benicio Del Toro won the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Actor award. Che Guevara is conventionally depicted either as a saint of revolution, or a ruthless executioner. Stone’s interest in Latin America goes at least as far back as the 1986 hard hitting “Salvador”, which he directed and co-wrote (receiving a Best Writing Oscar nomination). Solomon p 231. They came of age, politically, as eyewitnesses to the campesinos’ hardships. To see Che’s interview with an Irish journalist at Dublin go to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBYUOOEHbJw. If Evita is a self-aggrandizing political huckster who enriches herself as the wife of General Juan Perón (Jonathan Pryce), hiding behind the façade of a populist persona, the skeptical Guevara is depicted in contrast as the real deal, the true revolutionary who has the masses’ genuine interests at heart. As for the assertions that Che was a murderer, Jon Lee Anderson, author of 'Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life' (1997), wrote: "I have yet to find a single credible source pointing to a case where Che executed 'an innocent'. Nearly 40 years after Che Guevara's execution in Bolivia, director Steven Soderbergh retraces the life of the iconic Cuban revolutionary in this nearly four-and-a-half-hour saga. © 2021 • The Progressive Inc. • 30 West Mifflin Street, Suite 703 • Madison, Wisconsin 53703 • (608)257-4626, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ekfej_kmHQ. This 2004 feature executive produced by Robert Redford is a sort of prequel to “Fidel”, in that Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal reprises his role as Che, only this time, he is much younger, a medical student of middle-class origins who embarks on a motorcycle odyssey across South America years before he became a freedom fighter in Cuba. "[5], Filming started in October in Puerto Rico. more than 4 years ago. Wells (who was a socialist, by the way) and his science fiction classic “The War of the Worlds”, apparently as a reference to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The film received mostly negative reviews at the time of its release. The island was chosen because South America was considered too politically unstable.[5]. It follows Guevara from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in Bolivia in 1967, although the film does not portray the formative pre-Cuban revolution sections of Che's life as described in the autobiographical book The Motorcycle Diaries (1993). The Motorcycle Diaries is a film that chronicles the early life of the revolutionary Che guevara, depicting the road trip alongside his loyal friend Alberto that changed his whole view of the world. We will always honor his memory." Hollywood was making a movie about Che Guevara. [4], "We are doing purely the story Che, the person, not the movement", said producer Sy Bartlett. “Che!” was one of a number of this period’s Bolshie biopics by ex-blacklistees depicting famous revolutionaries, co-made by leftist talents in an attempt to cash in at the box office on the student movement. The picture will be a character study, and I will only say that it is neither pro nor anti Guevera. He was summarily executed the following day, thus avoiding a sensational trial and bringing to a devastating end Che’s “Tricontinetal strategy.”, According to a June 3, 1975 declassified document, “When Che Guevara was executed… one CIA official was present -- a Cuban-American operative named Félix Rodríguez… After the execution, Rodríguez took Che’s Rolex watch, often proudly showing it to reporters...”. “To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary … These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. Epic Triumph: “CHE: PART I: THE ARGENTINE”. We will always honor his memory." Nelson Mandela wrote: "Che's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. http://nypost.com/2015/05/10/inside-fidel-castros-luxurious-life-on-his-secret-island-getaway/ You might also want to read an article about Che that talks a bit more about him. "[8], According to Fox records the film required $9,400,000 in rentals to break even and by 11 December 1970 had made $4,100,000. In “Che!” Puerto Rico locations doubled for Cuba and the Fox Ranch (today Malibu State Creek Park) stood in for Bolivia. Damn Commie But Che’s quixotic crusade to replicate the Cuban Revolution in Bolivia and to “create, one, two, three, many Vietnams” in the Western Hemisphere was as ill-conceived as John Brown’s disastrous 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry in his quest to abolish slavery.