Waiting for Fidel (1975)

  • NR
  • 11/14/1975 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 57m

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)

Michael Rubbo

Director

Cast

Geoff Stirling's headshot

Geoff Stirling

Self
Fidel Castro's headshot

Fidel Castro

Self
Erich Honecker's headshot

Erich Honecker

Self
Bernabe Ordez's headshot

Bernabe Ordez

Self
Michael Rubbo's headshot

Michael Rubbo

Self
Joey Smallwood's headshot

Joey Smallwood

Self

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