Che
Guevara in film
- El 'Che' Guevara (1968) — Francisco Rabal
- Che! (1969)— Omar Sharif
- Evita (1996) — Antonio Banderas
- El Día Que Me Quieras (1997) — directed
by Leandro Katz
- Hasta la victoria siempre (1999) — Alfredo
Vasco
- Fidel (2002) — Gael García Bernal
- The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) — Gael García
Bernal
- The Lost City (2005) — Jsu Garcia
- The Argentine (2008) — Benicio Del Toro
- Guerrilla (2008) — Benicio Del Toro
- Che (2008) — Benicio Del Toro
Che Guevara film references
- The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) —
In this parody of the rise and fall of The Beatles by Eric
Idle and Neil Innes, the fictional band played their final
gig at "Che Stadium", a take on the baseball stadium
Shea Stadium (home of the New York Mets), which is said
to be named after the political activist, Che Stadium, an
obvious allusion to Guevara.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) —
Johnny Depp depicting Hunter S. Thompson awakens from an
adrenochrome overdose and stands in front of a picture of
Che Guevara stuck to a Mexican flag. Benicio Del Toro who
co starred in the film (and would later play Che Guevara
in Che), has stated that Thompson kept a "big"
picture of Che in his kitchen.
- El Día Que Me Quieras [The Day You’ll
Love Me] (1998) — Leonardo Katz's film is a meditation
on Freddy Alborta's famous post-mortem photo of Che Guevara.
Katz deconstructs and re-photographs the famous picture
while drawing comparisons to the classic paintings of Mantegna's
"Dead Christ" and Rembrandt's "The Anatomy
Lesson".
- Utopia (1999) — James Benning utilizes
Richard Dindo's documentary Ernesto Che Guevara: The
Bolivian Diaries to form his avant-garde film. The
film juxtaposes Che's vehement opposition to imperialism,
with the importing of low wage Mexican laborers in the California
desert to farm the Imperial Valley.
- Breakfast With Hunter (2003) — Acclaimed
author Hunter S. Thompson can be seen in several scenes
wearing different Che Guevara T-shirts.
- Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) —
Actress Lindsay Lohan dons a Che Guevara T-shirt in one
scene.
- Siddharth — The Prisoner (2009) —
Indian actor Rajat Kapoor was made up to resemble Guevara.
In describing the reasoning, director Pryas Gupta stated
that the central concept of the film is "freedom from
the complexities of life" while remarking "who
better than Che Guevara, to represent that spirit."
[Edited from Wikipedia: Che Guevara in pop culture] |
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