Fidel Castro - Life for the Revolution [eVideo]
2014
Online Video
A piece of world history and a personal story, the film draws a psychological portrait of the revolutionary based on research and interviews with Castro's close ones, comrades and famous politicians. Fidel Castro has outlived generations of US presidents, Soviet General Secretaries and CIA directors, he was in power longer than any other chief of state or government. Yet, the man behind the mask of the Cuban revolutionary leader is largely unknown. Who is Fidel Castro really? For decades, he has sealed his private life off. Only very few people have been close to the wary politician.The documentary presents a psychological profile of the Cuban revolutionary. With attention to every detail, it depicts numerous historical events. Among the film's interviewees are Castro's great love Natalia Revuelta and their daughter Alina, Mikhail Gorbachev and Henry Kissinger, Che Guevara's daughter Aleida, their former comrades in arms and friends. For many, Castro is the symbol of political independence and endurance. Others only recognize ideological torpor in him. He is a living legend, admired and hated. The film is as much world history as it is Castro's personal history.
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Lamby, StephanSkierka, VolkerHedges, JohnCastro, FidelMatos, HuberSmith, WayneHonecker, MargotRodríguez, Melba HernándezFuentes, NorbertoLesnick, MaxRevuelta, NataliaRevuelta, Alina FernándezZiegler, JeanGuevara, Ernesto 'Che'Guevara, AleidaSánchez, CeliaSullivan, EdDíaz-Balart, Fidel Ángel CastroCorrales, RaulNixon, RichardKhrushchev, NikitaBarnet, MiguelAgee, PhilipDaniel, JeanKissinger, HenryBrezhnev, LeonidHonecker, ErichGorbachev, MikhailII, Pope John PaulWulffen, BerndCastro, RaulXVI, Pope BenedictBeamafilm Pty. Ltd
Imprint:
United States : ECO Media,Parthenon Entertainment, 2014.Sydney : Beamafilm Pty. Ltd.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file (44 min.) )
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Notes:
Available online at Beamafilm.English,GermanDescription based on online resource; title from title screen.
Credits:
Director, Stephan Lamby,Volker Skierka
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Cast: Cast: John Hedges,Fidel Castro,Huber Matos,Wayne Smith,Margot Honecker,Melba Hernández Rodríguez,Norberto Fuentes,Max Lesnick,Natalia Revuelta,Alina Fernández Revuelta,Jean Ziegler,Ernesto 'Che' Guevara,Aleida Guevara,Celia Sánchez,Ed Sullivan,Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart,Raul Corrales,Richard Nixon,Nikita Khrushchev,Miguel Barnet,Philip Agee,Jean Daniel,Henry Kissinger,Leonid Brezhnev,Erich Honecker,Mikhail Gorbachev,Pope John Paul II,Bernd Wulffen,Raul Castro,Pope Benedict XVI
Audience:
M Australian Classification BoardM Beamafilm or New Zealand Standards Organisation15 Beamafilm or British Standards Organisation15 Beamafilm or Irish Standards OrganisationPG-13 Beamafilm or American Standards Organisation14A Beamafilm or Canadian Standards Organisation
Language:
English
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Index terms:
1960s1970s1980s19960s2000sCubaHistoryMilitaryJournalismBiographyNewsPoliticsRevolutionDocumentary
BRN:
639200
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