Now for all my history buffs and indie film fans I got a treat for you.
"Che," the movie about Argentine Ernesto "Che" Guevara who fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution, will be shown next month in Cuba, the director of Havana's New Latin American Film Festival said on Thursday (11/13/08).
Puerto Rican-born actor Benicio Del Toro played the role of Che, who would be captured and executed on October 9, 1967, while trying to lead a leftist insurgency in Bolivia.
Del Toro would win the best-actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where the film premiered.
The film was shot in Spain and Bolivia because, according to Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, the U.S. government, which has a 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, would not allow Soderbergh to make the movie on the Communist-led island.
Ivan Giroud would inform reporters the movie, made by U.S. director Stephen Soderbergh, would be a special presentation not eligible for any of the festival awards. Giroud said the film's principals would have to get U.S. permission to attend the showing.
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