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Che’s great movie material is really what it comes down to. He had one of the most fascinating lives that I can imagine in the last century. ” said Steven Sodenbergh

Sodenberg who planned to make two movies on the Marxist revolutionary Che had the premier of his movie at the Cannes film Festival. He named the first part The Argentine that will focus on the Cuban Revolution from the moment Fidel Castro, Guevara and other revolutionaries landed on the Caribbean island, until they toppled the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista two years later. While the second movie Guerrilla will focus on the years following the Cuban Revolution. It will also peeks from Che’s many speeches at the UN Headquarters in New York. The film will end with his death in 1967.

Both films were shot back to back and the dialogue in Spanish. Guerrilla was shot according to Sodenberg “in Super-16, 1.85:1. No dollies, no cranes, it’s all either handheld or tripods. I want it to look nice but simple. We’ll work with a very small group: basically me, the producer Gregory Jacobs and the unit production manager.” He ultimately opted to shoot both films on early models of the RED One rather than 16mm film, but otherwise kept to his plan of shooting the first film anamorphic, and the second with spherical lenses.

Most of the financing for the movie was done outside the U.S. They also have the necessary finances to distribute it without a U.S. distribution deal. Benecio Del Toro who played Che and won the Best Actor in the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival is joined with Benjamin Bratt and Franka Potente.

Click the thumbnails to see the pics from the movie and also the Poster