Waiting for Fidel
1974
57 min
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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.
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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.
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directorMichael Rubbo
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editingMichael Rubbo
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photographyDouglas Kiefer
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location soundJacques Chevigny
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assistant editorJohn Fricker
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camera assistantAllan Morgan
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sound editingTiina Soomet
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re-recordingJean-Pierre Joutel
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producerTom DalyMichael Rubbo
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executive producerColin Low
