Comandante

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Comandante is a political documentary film by American director Oliver Stone. In the film, Stone interviews Cuban leader Fidel Castro on a diverse range of topics. Stone and his film crew visited Castro in Cuba for three days in 2002, and the film was released in 2003, having its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival early that year. This film was not released to theatres in the US due to pressure from anti-Castro Cuban Americans.

Comandante was followed in 2004 by another documentary, entitled Looking for Fidel, which includes interviews of Castro in the wake of 2003 crackdown on political dissidents in Cuba, as well as interviews of some of the dissidents and Cuban human rights advocates.

[edit] Sale

This film is available for sale as a Region 2 DVD, and consequently, it will not work in most American DVD players. It can be purchased in the United States through online retailers such as amazon.co.uk. One can then watch the film on some US-made DVD players by entering a "hack," or custom firmware that alters the regional settings of a DVD player, thus allowing it to play multi-region DVD's.

The film cannot be purchased as part of an Ultimate Oliver Stone Collection DVD boxset released by Warner Bros. in 2004, shortly before the release of Stone's film Alexander. Twelve of Stone's directed films from Salvador (1984) to Any Given Sunday (1999), are featured within the 14-disc set. Disc 13 is the documentary Oliver Stone's America, and Disc 14, the 'bonus disc' features a ten minute look at Alexander as well as the Stone documentaries Looking For Fidel, and Persona Non Grata.