IFC Films has picked up the distribution rights to both “The Argentine” and “Guerilla”, the two-part upcoming Steven Soderbergh films starring Benicio Del Toro about the life of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. In January, the Independent Film Channel will be releasing the both of the movies in theaters as well as through IFC In Theaters, the channel’s video-on-demand service. The films will also be distributed through and exclusive deal between IFC and Blockbuster Video.
The two films, collectively referred to as “Che” during a single four-hour screening this past May at the Cannes Film Festival, will be covering Guevara’s life from the beginnings of the Cuban Revolution in 1953, to the overthrow of the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, his visit to the United Nations in 1964, all the way to his death in the Bolivian Mountains in 1967. The two films, which cover the life and times of the legendary revolutionary best known for his part in the Cuban Revolution alongside Fidel Castro, stars Del Toro as the Argentinean doctor turned soldier and, among others, Julia Ormond, Benjamin Bratt, and Mexican actor Demián Bichir as the legendary cigar-smoking Fidel Castro. Before January the films will be showing at the New York Film Festival on October 7th.
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By Costa Koutsoutis, Source: Variety.com