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On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba’s main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz, the hope of a people. Over the next 40 years, by the force of his personality and the might of his Soviet benefactor, Castro turned himself and Cuba into significant players on the world stage. He did so while surviving the hostility of nine consecutive U.S. presidents, an invasion, several CIA assassination attempts, and an economic embargo. Castro’s face with its trademark beard, became an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remained an enigma to all but a few. This documentary constructs an intimate and revealing portrait of this most resilient of leaders.

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