Che: Part One

Section: World Cinema
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh


USA, 2008

Dir.: Steven Soderbergh
Scr.: Pter Buchman
Phot.: Peter Andrews
Ed.: Pablo Zumárraga
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Franka Potente
Format: 35 mm
Color
126 mins
Language: English, Spanish voice, Hungarian subtitle
www.che-movie.co.uk
Hungarian distributor: SPI.

The name still resonates forty years after his death. Perhaps more than any other individual, Che Guevara personifies an era: the sixties, a time when revolution was in the air. He is now a global brand, his image ubiquitous. Young, handsome and idealistic, he was a hero to the oppressed – and he remains an icon, a projection of the hopes, dreams and fantasies of many. The film is divided into two parts, mirroring two phases of Che's life: the first half covers the years from 1955 to 1962 and it deals with the struggle against Batista, portraying in considerable detail the gruelling battle that Fidel and Che fought in the Cuban countryside before successfully entering Havana.

„Soderbergh's epic is neither romantic nor even particularly partisan. While the real Che may be (or may once have been) cool, the filmmaker's attitude is way cooler. Whatever heat star and co-producer Benicio Del Toro brings to the title role, Soderbergh's project is to search for the technocrat in the original revolutionary rock star.” (J. Hoberman)

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