Che: Part One - The Argentine
Steven Soderbergh, Director
2008 | 134 min
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's epic biographical portrait of Latin-American revolutionary Che Guevara features Benicio Del Toro in his Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award-winning role. Part One concentrates primarily on the years 1956 to 1958 when Che met Cuban exile Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir) and waged a mountain-based guerrilla campaign that eventually overthrew Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship. Del Toro gives a "technically flawless [performance infused...] with the full and considerable measure of his own charisma" -- New York Times.
