Waiting for Fidel

Synopsis

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.

Director Biography

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).