Waiting for Fidel

57m
Documentary
5.8

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)

Cast

Geoff Stirling
Self
Fidel Castro
Self
Erich Honecker
Self
Bernabe Ordez
Self
Michael Rubbo
Self
Joey Smallwood
Self

Crew

Jacques Chevigny
Location Sound Recordist
Michael Rubbo
Director, Editor, Producer
John Fricker
Assistant Editor
Douglas Kiefer
Cinematography
Colin Low
Executive Producer
Tom Daly
Producer
Allan Morgan
Assistant Camera
Tiina Soomet
Sound Editor
Jean-Pierre Joutel
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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