Che: Rise and Fall
{{Infobox film
| name = Che: Rise & Fall
| image = CheRise&Fall.png
| caption = UK Release, 2006
| director = Eduardo Montes-Bradley
| producer = Soledad Liendo
| writer = Eduardo Montes-Bradley
| starring = Alberto Granado, Alberto Castellanos, Enrique Oltuski, Argudín Mendoza, Enrique “Pombo” Villegas
| music = Various
| editing = Eduardo Montes-Bradley
| distributor = Alexander Street Press, Kanopy.
| released = {{Film date|2006}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Spanish with English Subtitles. Dubbed into German.
}}
Che Rise & Fall is a documentary film 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, his final resting place. The documentary features the testimonies of Guevara’s comrades-in-arms in Sierra Maestra, Congo and Bolivia, also by Alberto Granado with whom Guevara rode a motorcycle from Argentina on a trip that will end 16 years later in the jungles of Bolivia, an experience that was brought to the big screen on The Motorcycle Diaries. Che Rise & Fall begins with an account of Guevara's death in Bolivia in 1967 and fittingly ends with footage of the return of his remains for interment in Santa Clara's Revolution Square some 30 years later.Video Librarian. Vol 23, #5. September-October, 2008.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181765958 WorldCat]
According to Lourdes Vázquez of Rutgers University Library, the film documents Guevara's frustrated experience during the period spent fighting in Congo's Revolutionary War as well as his sense of failure.Vázquez, Lourdes, Rutgers University Library. Educational Media Reviews Online. October 2, 2007 The documentary includes original archival footage, original photographs captured by Ernesto Guevara in Mexico, and images from the ceremony of Guevara’s remains being brought to Santa Clara. Some of these images were originally part of the documentary "Che, a man of this world" (1998) by Marcelo Schapces.Konno, Kiyoshi. Illustrations by Shimano, Chie. Che Guevara. Penguin Group. New York, USA. Bibliography
Che: Rise & Fall premiered on National Geographic Channel on June 14, 2007[http://librinsula.bnjm.cu/1-205/2007/junio/180/noticias/noti1950.htm Libr’insula, la isla de los libros. Vol 4. N. 180. June 15th, 2007][http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2007/06/10/espectaculos/c-01002.htm Diario Clarin. Buenos Aires, Sunday, June 10, 2007] and has been released on DVD in the U.S., Germany,Che Guevara: Aufstieg und Fall eines grossen Revolutionärs. 2007 Edel entertainment GmbH. PAL. [http://musenblaetter.de/artikel.php?aid=1769] United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain.
Production notes
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: 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 knew Ernesto Guevara—filmed on Super 16mm. Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 DVD | Release Date: July 13, 2006.Harris, Richard L. "Che Guevara: A Biography" Cited Documentary. p. 225 Greenwood Biographies - ABC-CLIO, LLC. Santa Barbara, CA. 2011.
Festivals and academic projection
Che: Rise & Fall has been invited to participate at the 20èmes Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse, in France. WorldCat also lists the film as available at some fifty university and public libraries in the United States, including the University of Virginia, National Defense University Library, Defense Intelligence Agency, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Bucknell University, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the College of New Jersey, Morehead State University, Ohio State University Libraries, Emory University, Dartmouth College Library, Université du Québec à Montréal, and Tulane University.
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0796932|Che: Rise and Fall}}
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Category:American independent films
Category:2000s Spanish-language films
Category:Documentary films about Che Guevara
Category:Argentine documentary films
Category:American documentary films
Category:2007 documentary films
Category:Films directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley