Che (film)

• Benicio del Toro: Ernesto Che Guevara
• Demián Bichir: Fidel Castro
• Rodrigo Santoro: Raúl Castro
• Santiago Cabrera: Camilo Cienfuegos
• Édgar Ramírez: Ciro Redondo
• Vladimir Cruz: Ramiro Valdés
• Catalina Sandino Moreno: Aleida March
• Jsu Garcia: Jorge Sotús
• Carlos Bardem: Moises Guevara
• Kahlil Mendez: Leonardo " Urbano " Tamayo
• Julia Ormond: Lisa Howard
• Jon DeVries: Sen. Eugene McCarthy

Che - Revolución ( Che - Part One: The Argentine ) is an American- French-Spanish biopic from 2008, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and written by Peter Buchman. .

Action

The Argentine Ernesto " Che " Guevara arrives in Mexico in 1956, the revolutionary Fidel Castro. Together with some companions they travel to Cuba in November 1956. The Argentine is the Comandante, the commander of a unit of guerrilla fighters. After about two years of struggle, the revolutionaries take power. The first part of this biography film ends with the significant victory for the guerrillas in Santa Clara, the former ruler Fulgencio Batista has settled and the way to Havana is free.

In the first part of "Che" can be distinguished at least three lines of action:

The cuts are unexcited, the focus is on the presentation of the historical story, and particularly to the person, the symbol " Che", which as it is called in the film by a journalist in New York.

Background

The film was shot in Campeche in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Madrid. Furthermore, it contains original recordings that were recorded at the United Nations in New York City. The shooting took place in July and August 2007 at 39 days of shooting. The production cost of the film was estimated at 30 million U.S. dollars. In the U.S., the film is about 1.7 million U.S. dollars played a.

The world premiere took place on 21 May 2008 at the International Film Festival in Cannes in 2008, where the film took part as a competition entry. The film was together with the second part of Guerrilla Steven Soderbergh showing the later years in the life of Ernesto Che Guevara, as listed on a four-hour film titled Che. It was followed by several screenings at international film festivals, including 1 May 2009 at the Viennale. In Spain, the film could be seen from the 5th September 2008. In Argentina, the birthplace of Che Guevara, the film began on 13 November 2008. The limited screening in the United States began on 12 December 2008, from 24 January 2009, he was fully seen in American cinema. On 11 June 2009 the theatrical release in Germany and in Austria took place a day later.

Although Benicio del Toro was the first choice for the lead role of the lead role of the film, but it was considered to assign the main role of Val Kilmer, in the event that Benicio Del Toro would not be available for filming available. To prepare for his role to Benicio del Toro worked for seven years with the life of Che Guevara. He chose Ryan Gosling to play Benigno " Beni " Ramírez. Gosling met in preparation for his role with the historical person Ramírez and learned some Spanish. Due to delays during the pre-production, Gosling had to leave the film project, after which his role was awarded to Armando Riesco. Jsu Garcia, who plays the role of Jorge Sotús in the film was to see as Che Guevara in the film The Lost City.

Originally Terrence Malick was working on a screenplay that deal exclusively with Che Guevara's attempts to start a revolution in Bolivia, busy. As this project but received no financial support, Malick abandoned the project and found in Steven Soderbergh a director, the adaptation of the script in the second part of the film project Che - Guerrilla took over.

The film is a tribute to the Marxist concept of dialectics, which includes the ascent through two opposing ideas. So the film was made with the division into two halves, with two tempos, two color schemes, two image formats and two approaches to the chronology. Each half focuses on a different revolution that basically resembles in theory, but in their results entirely different fails.

Che - Revolución was the first feature-length film, which was shot with the Red One Camera.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing was Christa Kistner synchronous production in Potsdam. The dialog book authored Erik Paulsen, who also led the synchronous Director.

Film Music

The film largely without film music. However, Alberto Iglesias was nominated several times at film festivals for the soundtrack.

On November 22, published in 2008 Varese Sarabande soundtrack to the film Che - Revolución and its sequel Che - Guerrilla, which contains 21 songs. This is by Rating the editors of computer image both " very successful " and "convincing".

Reviews

Jeffrey Wells praised in the Huffington Post on 29 April 2008 the scripts of both films about Che Guevara, Che - Revolucion and Che - Guerrilla, as " damn good ". They would represent the revolutionary as " Lawrence of Latin America" ​​. The character Guevara was in Revolución complex while he acted under strict and dogmatic in guerrilla. In the first two films he was suffering from asthma and make mistakes, but from which he may learn.

Wolfgang Höbel wrote in the magazine Der Spiegel on 22 May 2008, both films about Che Guevara were " pushy undramatic ". Benicio del Toro equal to " with maximum histrionic zeal to the historical model " to his game WOULD however Che - Revolución as " a Mural". The director let out the human side of revolutionary.

" Those who expect a historically accurate or critical examination of the icon Che, but is disappointed in these films. Soderbergh's Che films are one thing - action movies. As such, they, however, are done. "

Awards

The film participated in the International Film Festival in Cannes in 2008, where director Stephen Soderbergh competed unsuccessfully for the Golden Palm. For his performance as Che Guevara lead actor Benicio del Toro won the Best Actor Award at Cannes. The following year, Benicio del Toro was nominated in Spain at the Cinema Writers Circle Awards for Best Actor, while Alberto Iglesias was nominated for Best Film Music, and Peter Buchman for best adapted screenplay. Also in 2009, Benicio del Toro was awarded the Goya Award for Best Actor, while Antxón Gómez was honored in the Best Production Design category. At this event, Alberto Iglesias was nominated for Best Film Music, Peter Buchman was nominated Supervision for best adapted screenplay and Cristina Zumárraga in the Best Production category. The Online Film Critics Society Awards Benicio del Toro received a nomination for Best Actor and Steven Soderbergh was nominated for best film production.

Continuation

The second part Che - Guerrilla also appeared in 2008.