Documentary

Waiting for Fidel

Name: Waiting for Fidel
Director: Michael Rubbo
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1975-11-14
Duration: 57 min
Rating: 6.0
Cast: Geoff Stirling, Fidel Castro, Erich Honecker, Bernabe Ordez, Michael Rubbo

November 14, 1975

57m

TMDB6.0· 5

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)