Waiting for Fidel (1975)
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)
- Date of release
- 1975-11-14
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 57m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Michael Rubbo
Casting
- Geoff Stirling — Self
- Fidel Castro — Self
- Erich Honecker — Self
- Bernabe Ordez — Self
- Michael Rubbo — Self
- Joey Smallwood — Self
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