Waiting for Fidel
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974.
Special features: video interview with Geoff Stirling, the Canadian millionaire traveling with the filmmaker's company, by Roger Maunder of the Nickel Film Festival; video letter from director Michael Rubbo about the making-of 'Waiting for Fidel'.
Interviews with: Joey Smallwood, Geoff Stirling, Erich Honecker, Bernabe Ordez, Michael Rubbo.
An unlikely trio - filmmaker Michael Rubbo, Geoff Stirling, a millionaire Canadian broadcaster and higher consciousness seeker - and Joey Smallwood, a former Premier of Newfoundland, travel to Cuba in a private jet. Their goal is to meet with Fidel Castro and create a dialogue between him and the United States. But Fidel never show up. Michael Rubbo records each step of this wayward quest to meet the leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro.
DVD, All-zone regions, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.
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SERIES
Facets Video cool docs.
PUBLISHED
Chicago : Facets Video, [2004]
Year Published: 2004
Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 58 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1565804139 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Rubbo, Michael.
Smallwood, Joseph Roberts, 1900-
Stirling, Geoff.
Honecker, Erich.
Ordez, Bernabe.
National Film Board of Canada.
Facets Video (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Castro, Fidel, -- 1926-
Diplomacy.
Interviews.
Documentary -- Feature.