Che - guerrilla

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Movie
German title Che - guerrilla
Original title Che - Part Two: Guerrilla
Country of production USA , France , Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2008
length 135 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Steven Soderbergh
script Peter Buchman
Steven Soderbergh
Ben Van Der Veen
production Laura Bickford
Benicio del Toro
Steven Soderbergh
music Alberto Iglesias
camera Steven Soderbergh
(as Peter Andrews)
cut Pablo Zumarraga
occupation

Che - Guerrilla (Che - Part Two: Guerrilla) is a US-French-Spanish biopic from 2008. Directed by Steven Soderbergh , who also wrote the script with Peter Buchman and Ben Van Der Veen . The film is the sequel to Che - Revolución , which was also released in 2008.

action

In the first few pictures, a section of a television can be seen on which Fidel Castro reads Che Guevara's last letter on October 3, 1965 . Farewell scenes follow, the way to Bolivia to the future camp is traced. More fighters from Cuba, Bolivia and other Latin American countries join in, the "everyday life" of the guerrillas begins. Tamara "Tania" Bunke made contacts in La Paz , and in Havana Fidel and the French journalist Régis Debray discussed relief measures. It is hinted at that Che apparently selected a different operating room than the one previously envisaged.

The argument between Mario Monje , then General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bolivia, and Che is described in detail . Monje refuses to support the armed struggle and harshly explains to the Bolivians present that the party is no longer behind them. Che is now hoping for Moisés Guevara's group, who adopt a different stance towards the guerrillas than the party leadership, and farmers from the region who will join him. Before Tania and Monje leave the camp, Che impresses on her that she is the only connection abroad and that her covert activity is therefore indispensable. The chain of guerrillas marching lonely and heavily through the light, gray-green forest of the East Bolivian highlands is underlaid with a kind of programmatic speech by Che, in which he also talks about the coming difficulties and gives his fellow combatants one last opportunity to retreat. First encounters with the people in the area show the mutual strangeness that cannot be overcome, even if the uniformed men provide medical help and pay for the goods they need. The hope that the peasants will join the guerrillas is not fulfilled. Indiscipline occurs. When two young Bolivians flee, the army learns of the group's existence. Tania, who is in the camp with Debray and the Argentine Ciro Bustos against Che's instructions, is also exposed. There are first firefights.

In La Paz, President René Barrientos Ortuño agrees that Americans train Bolivian rangers to hunt Che. The guerrillas lose radio contact with the outside world, and while Tania has to have her fever treated and Debray and Bustos leave the camp, ranger units begin to encircle the group. Debray, Bustos and another journalist who had been in the camp are arrested in Muyupampa , and air strikes finally make it clear that the army has tracked down the group. With the news that the miners of the mine " Siglo XX " are on strike, hope is growing again. But the strike is crushed. Meanwhile, the rearguard, which includes Tania after her illness, wanders through the forest in search of the main troop, is betrayed by a farmer and finally wiped out on August 31, 1967 while crossing the Río Grande .

The ring of the army closes. Che Guevara was wounded in the leg and captured in a gun battle near the village of La Higuera in the Vallegrande province of Santa Cruz Department. He was taken to the local school, tied up and shot dead by a Bolivian volunteer on the morning of October 9, 1967. The camera follows his dying perception and then shows the departing helicopter with his corpse on board.

While the first film ends with the song Fusil contra fusil by the Cuban Silvio Rodríguez , the Argentine Mercedes Sosa sings the Zamba Balderrama over the last pictures .

background

The film was shot in Huelva and Los Navalucillos near Toledo in Spain and in La Paz in Bolivia . Its production amounted to an estimated 40 million US dollars . The shooting took place in July 2007.

The world premiere took place on May 21, 2008 at the Cannes International Film Festival , in which the film took part as a competition entry. At the festival, the film was shown together with the first part Che - Revolución , which shows Ernesto "Che" Guevara during the Cuban Revolution . Both films were shown together as a four-hour film under the title Che .

This was followed by various screenings at international film festivals , including on December 7, 2008 at the International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana and May 1, 2009 at the Viennale . The film was shown in Spain from September 27, 2009. The film opened on June 18, 2009 in Argentina, the country where Che Guevara was born. The limited screening in the USA began on December 12, 2008, from January 24, 2009, it was unrestricted to see in US cinemas. The theatrical release in Germany and Austria took place one day later on July 23, 2009.

While Benicio del Toro was the first choice to star in the film, consideration was given to giving the lead to Val Kilmer in case Benicio del Toro would not be available for filming. He selected Ryan Gosling to play Benigno "Beni" Ramírez. Gosling met with the historical figure Ramírez in preparation for his role and learned some Spanish. Due to delays during pre-production , Gosling had to leave the film project, whereupon his role was assigned to Armando Riesco . Lou Diamond Phillips learned Spanish for his role on the set in order to be able to conduct his dialogues in Spanish in front of the camera.

Matt Damon can be seen in a cameo in which he appears with a white flag and has a brief negotiation.

Che - Guerrilla was - together with Che - Revolución - the first full-length film that was shot with the Red One Camera .

synchronization

The German dubbing was created - like Che - Revolución - at Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion in Potsdam . The dialogue book was again written by Erik Paulsen , who also directed the dubbing .

actor German speaker role
Benicio Del Toro Wolfgang Wagner Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna
Matt Damon Simon hunter Ms. Schwartz
Mark Umbers Peter Flechtner George Roth
Lou Diamond Phillips Bernd Vollbrecht Mario Monje

Film music

On November 22, 2008, Varese Sarabande released the soundtrack for the film Che - Revolución and its sequel Che - Guerrilla , which contains 21 music tracks.

criticism

Jeffrey Wells praised the scripts of both films about Che Guevara, Che - Revolución and Che - Guerrilla , as "damn good" in the Huffington Post on April 29, 2008 . You would portray the revolutionary as "Lawrence of Latin America" . The character of Guevara is more complex in Revolución, while in guerrillas he appears strict and dogmatic.

Wolfgang Höbel wrote in the magazine Der Spiegel on May 22, 2008 that both films about Che Guevara were "intrusive and undramatic" . The director leaves out the human side of the revolutionary. The second of the two films is "just strictly drilled concept cinema" ; the execution of Guevara seems like an “ascetic mass for the dead” .

Awards

The film took part in the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival , where director Steven Soderbergh competed unsuccessfully for the Palme d' Or. For his performance as Che Guevara actor received Benicio del Toro the Cannes Best Actor Award . At the 2009 Online Film Critics Society Awards , Benicio del Toro received a nomination for Best Actor and Steven Soderbergh was nominated for Best Film Production. In 2010 Cristina Zumárraga was nominated for a Goya Award in the Best Production Supervision category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Locations , Internet Movie Database , accessed October 13, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Budget and Box Office Results , Internet Movie Database, accessed May 17, 2008
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Start dates , Internet Movie Database, accessed October 13, 2012
  4. ^ Starting dates: Che: Part One , Internet Movie Database, accessed on October 13, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Internet Movie Database : Background information , accessed on October 13, 2012
  6. ↑ Cannes International Film Festival : festival-cannes.fr , accessed on May 17, 2008
  7. ↑ film.guardian.co.uk , The Guardian , accessed 17 May 2008
  8. ↑ a b c Che - Guerrilla. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 13, 2012 .
  9. ↑ huffingtonpost.com , accessed May 17, 2008
  10. ^ Film review by Wolfgang Höbel , spiegel.de, accessed on May 27, 2008
  11. ↑ a b c d Nominations and Awards , Internet Movie Database, accessed October 13, 2012