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Waiting for Fidel. Michael Rubbo. 1974 57 min. 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.
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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 ...
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1. Jan. 1998 · After all, Fidel Castro and Raul, among other political prisoners, spent two years, 1953-55, on my homeland's most notable tourist attraction, El Presidio prison complex. (My father, who worked there, got to meet the lesser-known M-26 prisoners, like Huber Matos, but not Fidel or Raul.) Conservative columnist Christopher Hunt decided to travel Cuba by retracing the exact route Fidel's army ...
1. Jan. 1998 · In Waiting for Fidel, Hunt goes in search of Fidel Castro, the island's charismatic dictator for the last 41 years. The book gives eyewitness accounts and stories from fellow travellers and the people who have come to know Fidel quite well, the Cuban people. His search takes him from one side of the island to the other, through historic parks, down dark alley ways and from apartment to ...
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- Christopher Hunt
Incensed, he demanded that his name be removed, and in a staged interview, defended Castro, claiming "if there were Stalinist elements in Cuba Fidel Castro would be the first to say so and to start to root them out." Martin calls this interview "the coolest and most measured public response" to the situation, and although he allows that this was a difficult time for the novelist, he quickly ...
Waiting for Fidel. Director Michael Rubbo. Year 1974. Run Time 58min. Genre Documentary. Director Rubbo constructs an eye-opening look at Cuba while waiting for an interview with Fidel Castro that never takes place. Director. Michael Rubbo. Producers. To ...
