Che

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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008.
Booklet includes essay, "Why Che?", by film critic Amy Taubin.
Part 1 based on the book: Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War / Ernesto Che Guevara. Part 2 based on the book: The bolivian diary / by Ernesto Che Guevara.
Special features: Disc 1. Optional audio commentary featuring journalist and Che biographer Jon Lee Anderson; Theatrical trailer (3 min.). Disc 2. Optional audio commentary featuring Anderson. Disc 3. "Making 'Che'" documentary feature (50 min.); "End of a revolution" documentary on Che's death (1968, 26 min.); "'Che' and the digital cinema revolution!" technical featurette (34 min.); Part 1 deleted scenes (16 min.); Part 2 deleted scenes (6 min.); "Interviews from Cuba" collection of first-hand participant and historian accounts (36 min.)
Part 1. Che. Part one / screenplay by Peter Buchman (135 min.) -- Part 2. Che. Part two / screenplay by Peter Buchman and Benjamin A. van der Veen (136 min.) -- The supplements. Making "Che" ; End of a revolution ; "Che" and the digital cinema revolution! ; Interviews from Cuba.
Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Vladimir Cruz, Alfredo de Quesada, Jsu García, Kahlil Méndez, Elvira Mínguez, Andrés Manuel Munar, Julia Ormond, Jorge Perugorría, Edgar Ramírez, Victor Rasuk, Othello Rensoli, Armando Riesco, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Roberto Luis Santana, Norman Santiago Rivera, Rodrigo Santoro, Unax Ugalde, Roberto Urbina, Yul Vázquez, Carlos Bardem, Joaquim de Almeida, Pablo Durán, Eduard Fernández, Marc-André Grondin, Óscar Jaenada, Cristian Mercado, Jordi Mollà, Gastón Pauls, Antonio Peredo, Lou Diamond Phillips, Franka Potente, Néstor Rodulfo, Mark Umbers.
A portrait of the man who overthrew a dictatorship and became a revolutionary before his life was ended. Includes both Che Part One: The Argentine and Part Two: Guerrilla and bonus features.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen 2.39:1 aspect ratio (part 1) and 1.78:1 aspect ratio (part 2); Dolby digital surround 5.1.
Contents: Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria. -- Diario del Che en Bolivia.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Inspiring submitted by jjdijkstra81 on July 11, 2012, 4:59am Benicio Del Toro did a phenominal job cast as Che. Part 1 was a success story and inspired me. Part 2 made me sad....I won't tell you more, you'll have to see if for yourself.

The movie is utter garbage and unwatchable, really silly. What is worth of these 3 DCs is the PART of disc 3 with REAL Docs. submitted by Tassos on January 23, 2022, 11:49am I started watching the first disc, (part 1) and could not stand the juvenile presentation. Really ridiculous.

I skipped the second CD. I know SPielberg well, I loved his fairy tales like "Jaws", but, with the possible exception of Schindler's list, the clown can't make a SERIOUS movie that does not insult our intelligence. Maybe he hates to watch his own movies himself, but still makes them dumb, because the vast majority of the viewers are just as dumb.

Of the 3 CDs, the only valuable part is about half of the third cd, which I am watching now, which has ACTUAL BLACK AND WHITE DOCUMENTARIES of CHe's death, the trial of Regis Debrais, etc.

Del Toro has a striking resemblance to the Real Che (in the face), but of course this is not enough if the movie script and direction are as dumb as they are.

The guy playing Castro looks much less similar to the real thing.