
Waiting for Fidel
Visit website5.8/10 • 4
1975-11-14 • 0h 57m
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)
- Directors
- Michael Rubbo
- Editors
- Michael Rubbo

Waiting for Fidel
Visit website1975-11-14 • 0h 57m
5.8/10 • 4
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)
- Directors
- Michael Rubbo
- Editors
- Michael Rubbo
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsGeoff Stirling
Self
Fidel Castro
Self
Erich Honecker
Self
Bernabe Ordez
Self
Michael Rubbo
Self
Joey Smallwood
Self
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