Che : L'Argentin
Synopsis
Cuba, 1952: General Fulgencio Batista instigates a putsch, takes over power, and cancels the general election. Defying this corrupt dictator, Fidel Castro, a young lawyer and candidate running for the post of deputy under the People’s Party banner, moves into action. In the hope of provoking a popular uprising, he and 150 young people attack the Moncada Barracks, Batista’s largest garrison outside Santiago de Cuba, on July 26, 1953. The operation fails; Castro spends two years in jail. Granted an amnesty in 1955, he takes exile in Mexico. During this time, in Guatemala, a young idealistic Argentinian, Ernesto Guevara, becomes involved in politics. 1n 1954, when a military plot supported by the CIA overthrows the democratically-elected government of Jacobo Arbenz, Guevara takes refuge in Mexico. After first making contact with them in Guatemala, he joins a small Cuban revolutionary group. On July 13, 1955, in a modest Mexican apartment, Raul Castro introduces Guevara to his older brothe...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : Goodfellas
- Foreign production companies : Morena Films, Laura Bickford Productions
- French distribution : Warner Bros. (France)
Full credits (6)
- Screenwriter : Peter Buchman
- Director of Photography : Peter Andrews
- Music Composer : Alberto Iglesias
- Costume designer : Bina Daigeler
- Press Attaché (film) : Jean-Pierre Vincent
- Production Designer : Antxon Gomez
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : France, Spain, United States
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2008
- French release : 07/01/2009
