Movie Description

Waiting for Fidel

(1975)

Overview

This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owner Geoff Stirling and NFB film director Michael Rubbo. What happens while the crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island. (NFB)

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Original TitleWaiting for Fidel

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1975-11-14

Original LanguageEnglish

Runtime 00h 57m

Production CompaniesONF | NFB

Genres

  • Documentary