Waiting for Fidel
1975, English. Directed by Michael Rubbo.
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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- 0h 57m
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- English
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- 14 November 1975
- Country
- Canada
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Who directed Waiting for Fidel?
Waiting for Fidel (1975) was directed by Michael Rubbo and stars Geoff Stirling, Fidel Castro, Erich Honecker.