Waiting for Fidel

Waiting for Fidel

57 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1974

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)

Waiting for Fidel

57 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1974

Waiting for Fidel
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)
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers National Film Board of Canada
Original title Waiting for Fidel
Directors Michael Rubbo
Writers

Cast

Geoff Stirling

as Self

Fidel Castro

as Self

Erich Honecker

as Self

Bernabe Ordez

as Self

Michael Rubbo

as Self

Joey Smallwood

as Self