Waiting for Fidel

Michael Rubbo
1975-11-14


5.8
57 min

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

Name Character Team
Geoff Stirling Self Unowned
Fidel Castro Self Unowned
Erich Honecker Self Unowned
Bernabe Ordez Self Unowned
Michael Rubbo Self Unowned
Joey Smallwood Self Unowned