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Fidel

Producer/Director: Estela Bravo
Executive Producers: Sylvia Stevens
& Alan Fountain

Dur. 78 mins
35mm/16mm/Digibeta
For Channel 4 (UK)/ Fort Point Entertainment (USA) 1999

Fidel
Award winning documentary film-maker Estela Bravo chronicles the story of Fidel Castro’s political and personal life against the background of Cuban history and world events stretching from the revolutionary sixties through the cold war to the current era of global capitalism. Featuring comprehensive interviews with friends and foe, and having gained unique access to both Cuban state film archives and Castro himself, the film reveals unknown and controversial facets of one of the most iconic political figures of the twentieth century.