Search - Fidel: The Untold Story on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Movie Release: 2001 DVD Release: 07/22/2003 Format: DVD SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 31 mins Studio: First Run Features Members Wishing: 2 Genres: History, Biography, Military & War, Politics & Government

Fidel Castro is one of the world's best known and most recognizable political leaders, but he is also among the most mysterious. While Castro became a household name after overthrowing the rule of Fulgenico Batista and became the head of Cuba's new socialist government, little is known of his private life or the man behind the façade of his shaggy beard and omnipresent cigar. Fidel is a documentary by filmmaker Estela Bravo, who combines vintage newsreel footage with exclusive recent interviews which offer an insight into both Castro the leader, struggling to face the political and economic realities of the post-Soviet global environment, and Castro the man, as he tours his childhood home, goes swimming, and visits with his friends. Fidel also includes interviews with people who know or have met Castro, including Nelson Mandela, Muhammed Ali, Harry Belafonte, Alice Walker, Ted Turner, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Vlasta Vrana - Narrator

American expatriate Estela Bravo's 2002 documentary Fidel comes to DVD from First Run Features. Special features include bonus footage, trailers, photo galleries, and a profile of the director. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide