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3. Visitations
Waiting for Fidel
Director
Michael Rubbo
Producers
Michael Rubbo
Tom Daly
Cinematographer
Douglas Kiefer
Editor
Michael Rubbo
Sound
Tiina Soomet
Website
Contact
National Film Board of Canada
P.O. Box 6100
Station Centre-ville
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3H5
1974
Canada
57 min
Color
This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owner Geoff Stirling and NFB film director Michael Rubbo. What happens while the crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island.
Michael Dattilo Rubbo (born 31 December 1938) is an Australian documentarian/filmmaker. Rubbo was born in Melbourne, the son of Australian microbiologist Sydney Dattilo Rubbo,[1] and the grandson of the painter Antonio Dattilo Rubbo. He is one of four children and the brother of artist Kiffy Rubbo (1944–1980).
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