Held at the head is not enough.

So much hero was not long: Director Steven Soderbergh seems the audience in his Biopic "Che" a strict and serious revolutionary, who simply could not ironic in our mag fit fractional time. A beard has its Commandante therefore still a long way.

 

There was once a revolution. None of peaceful worship, Monday demos and Begrüßungsgeld. But a full filth, disease and death. Your compañeros Berets wore black caps and greasy. You zauselten in their Vollbärten and drove over the thick sideburns. And after a day in the jungle or street war ignited it at a fat Havana.

On their day they read books, write speeches or taught less educated colleagues. There were guys who should not make compromises. Not the outfit, not the fight, and certainly not on land reforms. Guys, the favorites of the toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista from the bottom of my heart and cursed on the world has left some.

Long ago. And now he is suddenly in survival size before us, the "Che", played by Benicio del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's two-Biopic, whose first part this week in the cinemas starts.

The asthma patients, which is in the subtropical forest voranschiebt panting, against nothing other than fight the spastic cough reflex, which heat their own exhaustion. At night it can be by a fellow from the mucus of the lungs knocking. Or the doctor who, despite all the revolutionary zeal a loving wonderment about the world and its inhabitants has not lost.

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For example, if a woman in the Cuban bush for days due to treatment, only to him, Ernesto Guevara, to confess that they had no complaints. But with a wish: It would have never in life seen a real doctor. Finally, the cool and charismatic speaker, the pseudo-documentary black-and-white sequences at the United Nations in 1964 and Fidel rule reforms, and to defend the lies of imperialism censures.

These scenes are among the most touching of the entire first part. And then there are other, wonderfully fragile moments, also in black and white: Guevara in the mask before the TV interview. No, he would not be geschminkt. As he watched as his interlocutor, the skin shiny satin finishing let the Maskenbildnerin he beckons again to himself. "A little bit of powder, perhaps." Or how he pflichteifrigen Translated almost lovingly into the barriers of their own importance and then would continue with the chef about food chats. This has a nice relaxed so that you the whole film would have wished.

"CHE" (USA, 2008)

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Screenplay: Peter Buchman
Cast: Benicio del Toro, Julia Ormond, Oscar Isaac, Rodrigo Santoro
Producer: Laura Bickford, Benicio del Toro
Rental: Central Film
Running time: 134 minutes (Part 2 runs 131 minutes)
Start: 11 June 2009 (Part 2 from 23 July)

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Steven Soderbergh is a wise and prudent director. One of which you can accept that he and his intellectually material always at eye height. Nevertheless, a non-so simple in the head, his audience why he is now with a total of 260-minute, unbroken serious epic about the revolutionary hero comes.

So much heroism will never quite fit in with the mail and pop-prefixes paved retreat into the private sphere, after the collapse of communism in the east left helpless in the West has left behind. Since then, could the sixties and seventies, born only to a diffuse discomfort in the culture of their parents, on the New Economy Poppertum or at some Finanzdarwinismus the banker; "I want to love and no revolution / I want love / Everything else I had already" , sang "The bride haut ins Auge" in 1995.

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The cinema has always opposed the revolution as a triumphal-dramatic form maintained, as long as they are colorful characters demographic aging. Films about heroes, from Spartacus to Gladiator, from Gandhi to Malcolm X provided ample material for Biopics. However, it is noticeable that in recent years the Vitae filmed several music legends such as Ray Charles or Johnny Cash have removed this trend. And in the aftermath of the assassination of the 11th September, when we no longer knew where to be - ideologically and ever. Somehow we know is probably still not.

And now suddenly comes this "Che". This is perhaps the most provocative Soderbergh to venture: the anachronism with which it provides us with a disciplined, intelligent and brave resistance fighters before the eyes sets. A Che, the revolutionary in its severity is so different than the pretty, young daredevils (Gael Garcia Bernal) in "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Walter Salles.

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But who to these smiling, spun, slightly stubborn, saufenden, dancing, kind Ernesto white, the other may be new, "Che" in the cinema perhaps better endure. Especially in the passages where the Che image of the film with the famous on the screen prints, house walls and T-shirts to cover coming. Precisely when the aloofness of the icon to look over Del Toros distanced, monitor expression shifts.

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