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Che (Part Two): Guerrilla - Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Carlos Bardem, Steven Soderbergh

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Following the success of the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) is at the peak of his fame and power when he vanishes without a trace. Resurfacing some time later in the jungles of Bolivia, Guevara sets about recruiting a new band of insurgents to help him spread the revolutionary message across the rest of Latin America. But as the Bolivian government and CIA close in on him, this will prove to be his most dangerous campaign yet.

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Film Ernesto 'Che' Guevara biography Communist revolutionary Latin America Bolivia rebel guerilla

Persons of interest

Benicio Del Toro .... Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Carlos Bardem .... Moisés Guevara
Demián Bichir .... Fidel Castro
Joaquim de Almeida .... President René Barrientos
Pablo Durán ... Pacho (Alberto Fernandez Montes de Oca)
Eduard Fernández .... Ciro Algarañaz
Marc-André Grondin .... Régis Debray
Óscar Jaenada .... Darío (David Ardiazola)
Kahlil Mendez .... Urbano (Leonardo Tamayo Nunez)
Cristian Mercado .... Inti (Guido Peredo Liegue)
Jordi Mollà .... Captain Mario Vargas
Gastón Pauls .... Ciros Bustos
Antonio Peredo .... Coco (Roberto Peredo Liegue)
Jorge Perugorría .... Joaquin (Juan Vitalo 'Vilo' Acuna)
Lou Diamond Phillips .... Mario Monje
Franka Potente .... Tania (Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider)
Othello Rensoli .... Pombo (Harry Villegas Tamayo)
Armando Riesco .... Benigno (Dariel Alarcon Ramirez)
Néstor Rodulfo .... Miguel (Manuel Hernandez Osorio)
Catalina Sandino Moreno .... Aleida March
Norman Santiago .... Tuma (Carlos Coello)
Rodrigo Santoro .... Raúl Castro
Mark Umbers .... George Roth
Yul Vazquez .... Alejandro Ramírez
María D. Sosa .... Aledita
Ezequiel Diaz .... Loro (Jorge Vazquez Viana)
Juan Salinas .... Polo (Apolinar Aquino Quispe)
Luis Muñoz .... Serapio Aquino Tudela
Stephen Casmier .... Captain Mitchell
James D Dever .... Major Ralph 'Pappy' Shelton
Roberto Sanmartín .... Captain Gary Prado
Matt Damon .... Father Schwartz
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara .... Author: Bolivian Diary
Peter Buchman .... Screenwriter
Benjamin A van der Veen .... Screenwriter
Steven Soderbergh .... Director

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Awards and film festivals:

Cannes Film Festival 2008: Won: Best Actor (Benicio Del Toro); Nominated: Golden Palm (Steven Soderbergh)
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2009: Nominated: Best Actor (Benicio Del Toro)

NB: Aymara, English, Quechua and Spanish language dialogue with English language subtitles
Screens with Che (Part One): The Argentine
See also The motorcycle diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)
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Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Bolivia sure ain't Cuba. Cuba is full of lush and verdant overgrowth. Bolivia is as dry as a nun's tit. I know this because I saw it in this movie. Cuba is also an organic experience for Che: he experiences, he learns, he grows. Bolivia is the practical application of theories created in Cuba. Unfortunately for the Bolivians (and their foreign friends), theories learned on one battlefield don't automatically transfer to the next.

Che (Part Two): Guerrilla is a continuation from The Argentine, skipping over a few minor incidents (eg Thirteen days, the Congo, the Soviet Union) but otherwise bringing us his beginning as a revolutionary and his end. This is a more difficult film to watch than the first one because, as we all know, the revolutionaries end (and Bolivia is about as hospitable as the Red Heart, see above). Still, it's just as important to see a man on the way down as it is on the way up.

My biggest question remains unanswered by these films: Why do revolutionaries wear berets?

The Ernesto 'Che' Guevara biography movie Che (Part Two): Guerrilla is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Carlos Bardem.