The untold story of his final revolution
Seven years after his triumph in Cuba, Che winds up in Bolivia, where he tries to ignite the same revolutionary fires as before.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20246/10
Picking up from his part in the successful installation of the Castro government in Cuba, Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) has moved around the South American continent a bit before ending up in Bolivia where he and a few faithful followers decide to mobilise the miners in the south of the country against the leadership of President Barrientos. What's clear fairly quickly here is that his forces are smaller, much less well equipped and fighting a foe far more adept at his kind of warfare. This is much more of a documentary-style presentation from Steven Soderbergh and I found it really quite a dry chronology that portrayed Guevara as a sort of serial revolutionary. A man of principal, yes, but also one who increasingly became unwilling to consider that his might not be the only way to solve a problem. Also, his antagonist in Bolivia also knew well how to engender support from the "campaniles", many of whom had elected him in the first place. There appears to be much more speculation in this, too, and I found it struggled to maintain it's momentum as at times it bordered on the look of a spaghetti western. It illustrates well the gap between rich and poor, but here his philosophy is not s
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Cast
- Benicio del ToroErnesto Che Guevara
- Carlos BardemMoisés Guevara
- Demián BichirFidel Castro
- Joaquim de AlmeidaPresident René Barrientos
- Pablo DuránPacho (Alberto Fernández Montes de Oca)
- Eduard FernándezCiro Algarañaz
- Marc-André GrondinRégis Debray
- Óscar JaenadaDarío (David Ardiazola)
- Kahlil MéndezUrbano (Leonardo Tamayo Núñez)
- Cristian MercadoInti (Guido Peredo Liegue)
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- Steven SoderberghDirector
- Terrence MalickScreenplay
- Benjamin A. Van Der VeenScreenplay
- Peter BuchmanScreenplay
- Steven SoderberghDirector of Photography
- Alberto IglesiasOriginal Music Composer
- Pablo ZumárragaEditor
- Laura BickfordProducer
- Benicio del ToroProducer
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