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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 ...
18. Mai 2011 · Excerpt from the film WAITING FOR FIDEL.In 1974, a group of extraordinary men take an extraordinary trip to Cuba. They include Joey Smallwood, the former soc...
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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 · Conservative columnist Christopher Hunt decided to travel Cuba by retracing the exact route Fidel's army took in 1959, in a victory lap stretching from Santiago de Cuba to Havana, where Hunt hoped to meet the Great Man. He never did, but along the way met everyone from street vendors and mechanics to prostitutes and other tourist attractions. I ...
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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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 ...
