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  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 15 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 15 m
Che

Summary November 26, 1956; led by Fidel Castro , a band of 80 rebels sails to Cuba. Among these young rebels is Argentine physician, Marxist, soldier, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Nation-less, strapped for resources and fueled only by determination, the group engages in swift, bloody battle to free the Cuban people from the corrupt dictatorship of Ful...

Directed By: Steven Soderbergh

Written By: Peter Buchman, Benjamin A. van der Veen, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 15 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 15 m
Che
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 31 User Ratings
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Summary November 26, 1956; led by Fidel Castro , a band of 80 rebels sails to Cuba. Among these young rebels is Argentine physician, Marxist, soldier, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Nation-less, strapped for resources and fueled only by determination, the group engages in swift, bloody battle to free the Cuban people from the corrupt dictatorship of Ful...

Directed By: Steven Soderbergh

Written By: Peter Buchman, Benjamin A. van der Veen, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

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Demián Bichir

Fidel Castro

Rodrigo Santoro

Raúl Castro

Benicio Del Toro

Ernesto Che Guevara

Catalina Sandino Moreno

Aleida March

María D. Sosa

Aleidita

Raúl Beltrán

Bolivian Customs Agent #1

Raúl 'Pitín' Gómez

Bolivian Customs Agent #2

Paty M. Bellott

Woman at Airport

Othello Rensoli

Pombo (Harry Villegas Tamayo)

Franka Potente

Tania (Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider)

Norman Santiago

Tuma (Carlos Coello)

Joaquim de Almeida

President René Barrientos

Pablo Durán

Pacho (Alberto Fernández Montes de Oca)

Ezequiel Díaz

Loro (Jorge Vázquez Viaña)

Juan Salinas

Polo (Apolinar Aquino Quispe)

Luis Muñoz

Serapio Aquino Tudela

Lorenzo Ariel Muñoz

Camba (Orlando Jiménez Baznán)

Antonio Peredo

Coco (Roberto Peredo Liegue)

Aarón Vega

Ricardo (José María Martínez Tamayo)

Giraldo Moisés

Braulio (Israel Reyes Zayas)

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
64
63% Positive
15 Reviews
29% Mixed
7 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
64
63% Positive
15 Reviews
29% Mixed
7 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews

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91
In both halves, Soderbergh emphasizes observation over ideology with an eye toward the mundane details of life on the front lines of a revolution.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
83
Leaving aside politics, it's quite an achievement in art.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 31 User Ratings
7.0
68% Positive
21 Ratings
26% Mixed
8 Ratings
6% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 31 User Ratings
7.0
68% Positive
21 Ratings
26% Mixed
8 Ratings
6% Negative
2 Ratings

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What this slow-moving but fascinating two-part portrait does do is hunker down in the jungles and mountains of Cuba and (in the second part) Bolivia, capturing in keen, almost Zen-like detail the trudging and trekking, the recruiting and strategizing, the fighting and the philosophizing.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
70
If this earnest, two-part biopic with a total running time of 268 minutes sometimes lacks cinematic flair, the straight-ahead, chronologically-driven film will inform and, to a somewhat lesser extent, excite viewers everywhere.
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60
If the director has gone out of his way to avoid the usual Hollywood biopic conventions, he has also withheld any suggestion of why the charismatic doctor, fighter, diplomat, diarist and intellectual theorist became and remains such a legendary figure; if anything, Che seems diminished by the way he's portrayed here.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW
50
What potentially could have been the greatest asset possessed by Che - its unapologetic length - turns into its greatest detriment.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
25
If Soderbergh's ambition was to make us feel just how dull it would be to a woods-dwelling communist guerrilla, he succeeded.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Wild Bunch, Telecinco, Laura Bickford Productions, Morena Films, Ministerio de Cultura, Guerrilla Films, Londra Films P&D, Pucara Films
Release Date Dec 12, 2008
Duration 2 h 15 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 2 Nominations
New York Film Critics, Online
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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