Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Documentary > Waiting for Fidel
Waiting for Fidel is a canadien film of genre Documentary directed by Michael Rubbo with Michael Rubbo

Waiting for Fidel (1974)

Waiting for Fidel
If you like this film, let us know!
  • Infos
  • Casting
  • Technical infos
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Film quotes
  • Characters
  • Music
  • Awards
Length 57minutes
Directed by
OriginCanada
Rating68% 3.408043.408043.408043.408043.40804

Waiting for Fidel is a documentary film from the National Film Board of Canada, in which Joey Smallwood, former Premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland media mogul Geoff Stirling; and director Michael Rubbo document their visit to Cuba in an unsuccessful attempt to interview Fidel Castro. Much of the film consists of the progressive-minded Smallwood and free-market supporter Stirling debating the effects of the Castro regime.

New York Times film reviewer Richard Eder observed that "It is about Cuba, in a way, but it is also about the difficulty in seeing Cuba for what it may be." Gary Evans, in his chronicles of the National Film Board, called the film "one of the most intriguing documentaries of the period".

Actors

Michael Rubbo

(Self)
Trailer of Waiting for Fidel

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Waiting for Fidel

There are 2 films with the same actors, 6 films with the same director, 8954 with the same cinematographic genres, 13463 films with the same themes (including 37 films with the same 4 themes than Waiting for Fidel), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Waiting for Fidel, you will probably like those similar films :
The Blonds
The Blonds (2003)
, 1h29
Directed by Albertina Carri
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Albertina Carri
Rating62% 3.146033.146033.146033.146033.14603
The film deals with a child, whose parents were among the tens of thousands of Argentines who were murdered during the military junta's Dirty War, who years later has to contend with the pain barely remembered.
Beyond Citizen Kane
Beyond Citizen Kane (1993)
, 1h45
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Rating82% 4.109394.109394.109394.109394.10939
The documentary tracks Globo's involvement with and support of the military dictatorship; its illegal partnership of the 1960s with the American group Time Warner (at the time Time-Life); Marinho's political manoeuvrings (which included airing on Jornal Nacional, the network's prime time news program, highlights of a 1989 presidential debate edited in a way as to favour Fernando Collor de Mello); and a controversial deal involving shares of NEC Corporation and government contracts. It features interviews with 21 people, including noted Brazilian politicians and cultural figures, such as politicians Leonel Brizola and Antonio Carlos Magalhães, singer-songwriter Chico Buarque, former Justice Minister Armando Falcão, politician Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who later was elected as president; and former employees Walter Clark and Armando Nogueira.