"his and Guevara's trip around South America. Granado has a brief cameo following the epilogue of the film. Alberto Granado Alberto Granado Jiménez (August 8, 1922March 5, 2011) was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America. Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. He authored the memoir ""Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary"", which served as a reference for the 2004 film ""The Motorcycle Diaries"", in which he was played by Rodrigo"
"on the youth diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara and his friend, Alberto Granado, when they crossed Latin America by motorcycle in 1952. Guevara and Granado's journey began in Argentina and continued on through southern Chile, the Atacama Desert, the mines in Chuquicamata, the Peruvian Amazonia, Colombia and Venezuela. After collaborating on the film based on this adventure story, ""I diari della motocicletta"" (The Motorcycle Diaries), directed by Walter Salles and produced by Robert Redford and Michael Nozik, Minà made the movie ""In viaggio con il Che"" (Travels with Che) which retraced the legendary adventure of 80-year-old Alberto Granado. The movie"
"Che (2008 film) Che is a two-part 2008 biographical film about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. ""Part One"" is entitled ""The Argentine"" and focuses on the Cuban Revolution from the landing of Fidel Castro, Guevara, and other revolutionaries in Cuba to their successful toppling of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship two years later. ""Part Two"" is titled ""Guerrilla"" and focuses on Guevara's attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia and his demise. Both"
"film of the same name. The journey took Guevara through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, and Miami, Florida, for 20 days, before returning home to Buenos Aires. By the end of the trip, he came to view Latin America not as collection of separate nations, but as a single entity requiring a continent-wide liberation strategy. His conception of a borderless, united Hispanic America sharing a common Latino heritage was a theme that recurred prominently during his later revolutionary activities. Upon returning to Argentina, he completed his studies and received his medical degree in June 1953, making him officially"
"an account of Guevara's death in Bolivia in 1967, and fittingly ends with footage of the return of his remains for interment in a monument in Santa Clara's Revolution Square some 30 years later. ""Che Rise and Fall"" explores an unorthodox approach to the myth of Che as a revolutionary icon. According to Lourdes Vázquez from Rutgers University Library, the film documents Che’s frustrated experience for the period spent fighting a in Congo's Revolutionary War as well as his sense of failure. The documentary includes original archival footage, original photographs taken by Ernesto Guevara in Mexico, and images from the"
"thriller co-starring Helen Mirren, Redford was a successful businessman whose kidnapping unearths the secrets and inadequacies that led to his achieving the American Dream. Redford stepped back into producing with ""The Motorcycle Diaries"" (2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, and his friend Alberto Granado. It also explored political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. With five years spent on the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. Back in front of the camera, Redford received"
"9 October 1967, and his corpse lashed to a helicopter's landing skids and flown out. In a final flashback scene, Guevara is aboard the ""Granma"" in 1956, looking out over the ocean, as the Cuban Revolution is about to begin. He sees the Castro brothers alone at the bow of the ship; Fidel is talking and Raúl is taking notes. Guevara hands a peeled orange to one of his comrades and returns his gaze to the lone brothers before the scene fades to black. Originally, ""Che"" was intended to be a much more traditional film based on Jon Lee Anderson's"
"young Ernesto Guevara, who later became known as Che Guevara. It was Salles's first foray as director of a film in a language other than his native Portuguese (Spanish, in this case) and quickly became a box-office hit in Latin America and Europe. In 2005, Salles released his first Hollywood film, ""Dark Water"", an adaptation of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name. He also helped to produce the Argentine picture ""Hermanas"" which was a major success. In 2006, Salles wrote and directed a segment in the French film Paris, je t'aime (French for ""Paris, I love you"") with"
"awarded the film 3.5 out of 4 stars and addressed the film's length: ""You may wonder if the film is too long. I think there's a good reason for its length. Guevara's experience in Cuba and especially Bolivia was not a series of events and anecdotes, but a trial of endurance that might almost be called mad"". ""Film Comment"" ranked ""Che"" as the 22nd-best film of 2008 in their ""Best Films of 2008"" poll. Film critics Roger Ebert, and James Rocchi went further, naming ""Che"" one of the best films of 2008. The film appeared on several critics' top ten"
"world full of incredible injustice."" Granado later stated that he appreciated the film's effort ""to dig beneath the ""mythical Che"", whose defiant image appears on T-shirts and posters around the world, ""to reveal the flawed, flesh-and-blood Ernesto beneath."" In a journey that lasts eight months, the partners travel over 14,000 kilometers, from Argentina through Chile, Peru, and Colombia to Venezuela. Key locations along the journey described in the film include: In Argentina: Buenos Aires, Miramar, Villa Gesell, San Martín de los Andes, Lago Frías, Patagonia and Nahuel Huapi Lake ; In Chile: Temuco, Los Angeles, Valparaiso, Atacama desert, and Chuquicamata;"
"ceremony of Che’s remains being brought to Santa Clara, originally included on the documentary ""Che, a man of this world"" (1998) directed by Marcelo Schapces. ""Che: Rise and Fall"" was premiered on National Geographic Channel on June 14, 2007 and has been released on DVD in the USA, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain. The documentary is structured around the testimony of Guevara’s childhood friend Alberto Granado, and those of Alberto Castellanos, Enrique Oltuski, Argudín Mendoza, Enrique “Pombo” Villegas, all members of his elite military entourage of Che Guevara during his revolutionary incursions in Sierra Maestra, Congo, and Bolivia. ""Che:"
"they encounter on their continental trek, Guevara and Granado witness first hand the injustices that the destitute face and are exposed to people and social classes they would have never encountered otherwise. To their surprise, the road presents to them both a genuine and captivating picture of Latin American identity. As a result, the trip also plants the initial seed of cognitive dissonance and radicalization within Guevara, who ostensibly would later view armed revolution as a way to challenge the continent's endemic economic inequalities and political repression. The screenplay is based primarily on Guevara's trip diary of the same name,"
"New York City and Los Angeles to qualify for the year's Academy Awards. Strong box office performance led to the ""special roadshow edition"" being extended in NYC and LA, and later expanded into additional markets. It was released as two separate films, titled ""Che Part 1: The Argentine"" and ""Che Part 2: Guerrilla"", and further distribution followed. The Independent Film Channel released the films via video on demand and on Region 1 DVD exclusively from Blockbuster. As a whole, ""Che"" grossed USD$40.9 million worldwide, against a budget of USD$58 million. In Havana in 1964, Che Guevara is interviewed by Lisa"
"perhaps the first biography on the subject that strives to be balanced. ""Evita"" was screened at the Virginia Film Festival, in Charlottesville, on November 4, 2011. . DVD Release Date: July 13, 2006 by Westlake Entertainment, German Release, 20007, Latin American premiered on NatGeo. ""CHE: Rise and Fall"", follows on the trials and tribulations of Ernesto Guevara in the words of old friends and comrades-in-arms. Includes the testimonies of Guevara's friend Alberto Granado, and members of his elite military entourage Alberto Castellanos, Enrique Oltuski, Argudín Mendoza, Enrique ""Pombo"" Villegas. Locations: Havana, Congo, Bolivia. Super 16mm. Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Samba On"
"documentary about the film's production, ""Che and the Digital Revolution""—a documentary about the Red One Camera technology that was used in the film's production, and ""End of a Revolution""—a 1968 documentary by Brian Moser who was in Bolivia looking for Che when Che was executed. Multimedia Che (2008 film) Che is a two-part 2008 biographical film about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. ""Part One"" is entitled ""The Argentine"" and focuses"
"Che Guevara Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara (; As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht ""Granma"" with the"
"The Motorcycle Diaries (book) The Motorcycle Diaries () is a memoir that traces the early travels of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist. Leaving Buenos Aires, Argentina, in January 1952 on the back of a sputtering single cylinder 1939 Norton 500cc dubbed ""La Poderosa"" (""The Mighty One""), they desired to explore the South America they only knew from books. During the formative odyssey Guevara is transformed by witnessing the social injustices of exploited mine workers, persecuted communists, ostracized lepers, and the tattered descendants of a once-great Inca civilization."
"film. The first English-language edition of Granado's account was published in 2003, entitled ""Travelling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary."" In her film """"My Best Friend"""", producer Clare Lewins asks Granado what he believes to be the reason for Che Guevara's continuing attraction, his response was: Before Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to pursue revolutions abroad, he left several books with inscriptions for close friends. Included with these was one book about the sugar industry for his old friend Granado. The message, which two years later after Che's execution in Bolivia would seem prescient, read: """"My dreams shall"
"only four and a half when her father left Cuba to foment revolution in the Congo, and almost 7 years old when he was executed in Bolivia, she still has fond memories of him. One such story that she has shared publicly is that her father (Che) would make up animal stories for his faraway children, stating: Guevara refers to her father Che as a source of personal inspiration. When giving speeches throughout the world, she often mentions his writings, remarking that she finds his diaries particularly helpful for their ""political insights and emotional maturity"". She has also stated that"
"Che Guevara”), by motorcycle in South America along the route of Ernesto Che Guevara, and has begun creating a feature-length fictional film, “The Year of Spring” (). His first travel round the world began April 2010 in Asia and lasted 407 days. Beginning he flew from Moscow, he flew to Uzbekistan, then to the East, followed by going South to Australia, then to South America and North America; from North America he crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, then he went across Africa and through the European countries he came back to Moscow. In total Vyacheslav visited 6 continents, 36"
"with additional context supplied by ""Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary"" by Alberto Granado. Guevara is played by Gael Garcia Bernal (who previously played Che in the 2002 miniseries ""Fidel""), and Granado by the Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna, who coincidentally is a second cousin to the real life Guevara on his maternal side. Directed by Brazilian director Walter Salles and written by Puerto Rican playwright José Rivera, the film was an international co-production among production companies from Argentina, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, Peru and France. The film's executive producers were Robert"
"Rodrigo de la Serna Rodrigo de la Serna (; born April 18, 1976) is an Argentine actor. In 2004, he won the Silver Condor for best actor and the Independent Spirit Award for ""Best Debut Performance"" for the film ""The Motorcycle Diaries"", for which he earned a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award and another nomination for the Golden Globe Award. He played the role of Alberto Granado, the travelling companion of Che Guevara during their 8-month long journey through South America. He has acted in several television series in Argentina such as Okupas, Sol Negro, and Hermanos"
"the person, not the movement,"" said producer Sy Bartlett. ""We want to show what happened with the people who touched his life."" Filming started in October in Puerto Rico. The island was chosen because South America was considered too politically unstable. The film received mostly negative reviews at the time of its release. Critic Paul Brenner stated: ""In this badly misconceived pseudo-biography of the legendary Cuban revolutionary—played, incredibly, by Omar Sharif—Che Guevara takes up the cause as a rebel fighter under the direction of Fidel Castro, played—also incredibly—by Jack Palance."" ""Che!"" was listed in the book ""The Fifty Worst Films"
"the town of Las Villas. The Battle of Santa Clara is depicted with Guevara demonstrating his tactical skill as the guerrillas engage in street-to-street fighting and derail a train carrying Cuban soldiers and armaments. Near the film's end, they are victorious. With the Cuban Revolution now over, Guevara heads to Havana, remarking ""we won the war, the revolution starts now."" The second part begins on November 3, 1966 with Guevara arriving in Bolivia disguised as a middle-aged representative of the Organization of American States hailing from Uruguay, who subsequently drives into the mountains to meet his men. The film is"
"In Peru: Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Lima; The San Pablo Leper Colony; Plus Leticia, Colombia and Caracas, Venezuela. Reviewer Nick Cowen of ""The Daily Telegraph"" described the scenery as ""visually stunning"" while remarking that ""the cinematography of fog-cloaked mountains, lush, green forests and sun burnt deserts is breathtakingly beautiful enough to serve as a travel advert for the entire continent."" ""The Observer"" reported that shortly after the film's release, tour operators in the region received a surge of inquiries, with some of them even offering Che Guevara-themed trips, where travelers could ""follow in the footsteps of the revolutionary icon."" In May"
"Rise and Fall"", was shot in La Habana, Bolivia, and undisclosed locations in Africa. What seems to distinguish this documentary from other biographical attempts to capture the man behind the myth, is the fact that even though the filmmaker features a wealth of archival stills and film footage, it’s essentially an oral history, told by those who actually knew Ernesto Guevara. Filmed on Super 16mm. Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 DVD | Release Date: July 13, 2006. ""Che: Rise and Fall"" has been invited to participate at the 20èmes Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse, in France. The documentary is also listed"
"Leaders for the New Millennium. Her second book, ""My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind"", mixes memoir with history and reportage to tell the story of Colombia’s 40-year-old civil war and uncover the truth about US involvement in the country. It was published by Henry Holt in September 2007. She was associate producer on ""Che: The Argentine"" and ""Che: Guerrilla"", a two part movie based on the life of Che Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. The movie started shooting in July 2007 and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008."
"as ""quite well read"" while adding that ""Che is fairly intellectual for a Latino."" In 1948, Guevara entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine. His ""hunger to explore the world"" led him to intersperse his collegiate pursuits with two long introspective journeys that fundamentally changed the way he viewed himself and the contemporary economic conditions in Latin America. The first expedition in 1950 was a 4,500-kilometer (2,800 mi) solo trip through the rural provinces of northern Argentina on a bicycle on which he installed a small engine. This was followed in 1951 by a nine-month, 8,000-kilometer (5,000 mi)"
"Che: Rise and Fall Che Rise and Fall is a documentary film created by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. The film was entirely shot in Cuba at the time Che Guevara’s remains were airlifted from Bolivia to Santa Clara the final resting place. The documentary features the testimonies of Guevara’s comrades-in-arms in Sierra Maestra, Congo and Bolivia, also with Alberto Granado with whom Guevara rode a motorcycle from Argentina on a trip that will end, tragically, sixteen years later in the jungles of Bolivia, an experience that was brought to the big screen on ""The Motorcycle Diaries"". ""Che Rise and Fall"" begins with"
"on an $85 million budget, it is the second highest-grossing film of his career after the first ""Ocean's"". The film concluded what would later be known as the ""Ocean's"" trilogy, a collection of heist movies that would go on to be described as defining a new era of heist films. Soderbergh directed ""Che"", which was released in theatres in two parts titled ""The Argentine"" and ""Guerrilla"", and was presented in the main competition of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, on May 22. Benicio del Toro played Argentine guerrilla Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara in an epic four-hour double bill which looks first"
"Chevolution Chevolution is a 2008 documentary film which examines the history and legacy of the photo ""Guerrillero Heroico"" taken by famous Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez. This image has thrived for the decades since Che Guevara's death and has evolved into an iconic image, which represents a multitude of ideals. The documentary explores the story of how the photo came to be, its adoption of multiple interpretations and meanings, as well as the commercialization of the image of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. ""Chevolution"" utilizes historic images and a multitude of artists, musicians, photographers,actors, academics, friends, fans, and acquaintances to explore the"
"continental motorcycle trek through part of South America. For the latter, he took a year off from his studies to embark with his friend Alberto Granado, with the final goal of spending a few weeks volunteering at the San Pablo leper colony in Peru, on the banks of the Amazon River. In Chile, Guevara found himself enraged by the working conditions of the miners in Anaconda's Chuquicamata copper mine and moved by his overnight encounter in the Atacama Desert with a persecuted communist couple who did not even own a blanket, describing them as ""the shivering flesh-and-blood victims of capitalist"
"and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. From there, Garcia Bernal went on to star in several films, including director Alfonso Cuarón's ""Y tu mamá también"" (2001) and the Mexican box-office record-breaker ""El crimen del Padre Amaro"" (2002). He has also done some theatre work, including a 2005 production of ""Bodas de Sangre"", by Federico García Lorca, in the Almeida Theatre in London. García Bernal also portrayed Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara twice, first in the 2002 TV miniseries ""Fidel"" and then, better known, in ""The Motorcycle Diaries"" (2004), an adaptation of a journal the 23-year-old"