Che

Director : Steven Soderbergh
Written by: Peter Buchman, Benjamin A. van der Veen

Che a physician by profession was moved by extreme poverty in Latin America. He blamed capitalistic policies of the rulers who were puppets of USA and worked for the betterment of US rather than their own country. He wanted to change the world and the uplift the poor. He got an opportunity to do that when he was introduced to Fidel Castro by Fidel's younger brother Raul. He was influenced by Fidel's socialistic ideals and he decided to take part in Cuban revolution to overthrow Batista.

Fidel had a goal limited to Cuba whereas Che wanted to free entire Latin America from the clutches of Capitalisim. He decided to start a similar revolution in Bolivia. Che was banking on the support of the local peasants and the communist party of Bolivia. But he was not able to garner that support, instead local people turned into informants for CIA. Che also underestimated Bolivian army thinking that he will be encountering a non trained indiscipline army unaware that US was helping Bolivia with the army training. 

On October 8, 1967 Che was captured by Bolivian army. Next morning Bolivian President Rene Barrientos ordered execution of Che.

Che the film is a two part movie. The first part is an account of Che's role during Cuban revolution and the second captures his attempt to revolutionize Bolivia.

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