El Che - Documentary about the ultimate revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

This is the movie about the late Ernesto 'Che' Guevara's life. Known as 'El Commandante' in Fidel Castro's Cuban Communist Party. This movie explores his motives and the experiences which shaped him for his future role as General Castro's right hand man.

Born in Rosario in 1928 to an upper middle class family, Ernesto was a sickly child but made extreme effort to overcome his handicap through sheer will and tireless effort.  He and another good doctor friend Alberto Granada did a cross continent motorcycle ride to seek 'adventure' in their early to late '20s to 'find their calling' so to speak. They left Argentina in 1952 and ended up in Colombia, and even Miami in 1955. Their adventures in Chile, Peru, Colombia included a 3 week internship in a leper colony called Saint Pablo, in the equatorial rainforests of Colombia affected them deeply about the grave social injustice and economic disparity caused by capitalism. 

He led successfully the overthrow of General Baptista's regime in 1958 and then tried unsuccessfully to export the same  model of authoritarian rule in African Congo and then in Bolivia.

Why is he lionised the world over ? I guess because he stood firm to his principles and was the ultimate anti-establishment icon of the 20th century. He wanted in the end to establish a United States of South America with a Marxist Government. In the end, he failed, was captured and killed in Bolivia by Government forces. 

Enjoy this movie showing the first meeting, then the planning, and finally the campaign to oust the regime of Batista from early 1958 till end of that year.