COMANDANTE
OPENING NIGHT FILM
Original language title: [same]

Oliver Stone turns to an entirely different genre with this intimate portrait of Fidel Castro, a man who has spent roughly half a century on the international stage.

From three days filming in Cuba, Stone has edited down more than 30 hours of interviews and conversations, creating a candid and direct portrait of this incredibly controversial figure. Stone, co-participant in the film as interviewer, shares the risk with Castro of being in fron t of the camera. Castro discusses the state of the country, the present situation in international politics, and some provocative details in the history of the last century. This is an illuminating one-on-one between two extremely controversial figures, which helps us better understand how the representative of such a small country can antagonize the world's leading superpower for more than four decades.

Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto, Carlos Marcovich
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Editing: Alex Marquez, Elisa Bonora
Producer: Jill Oliver Stone, Fernando Sulichin
Production Company: Pentagrama Films, Morena Films
Source: Mediapro
Jose Isbert, 20-2
Edificio ST Endoscopia
E-28223 Pozuelo de Alarcon
jmendez@mediapro.es

Oliver Stone was born in New York City in 1946. He has worked as a schoolteacher in Vietnam, a Merchant Marine sailor, a taxi driver, a messenger, a production assistant, and a sales representative for a sports film company. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. He was wounded twice and decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning from Vietnam, he completed his undergraduate studies at New York University Film School in 1971.

Stone has been nominated for 11 Academy Awards as a screenwriter, director, and producer. He has won Oscars for writing MIDNIGHT EXPRESS and as director for both BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY and PLATOON. He has also received three Golden Globes for directing (PLATOON, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, and JFK), one for writing (MIDNIGHT EXPRESS), and was nominated for Best Director for NATURAL BORN KILLERS and co-writing for NIXON.

Oliver Stone is a contributor of some 200 pages of essays on movies, culture, politics, and history in the book OLIVER STONE'S USA. His first novel was published in 1997 by St. Martin's Press. Entitled A CHILD'S NIGHT DREAM, it was based on Stone's experiences as a young man.

Filmography as director:

2002
COMANDANTE
PERSONA NON GRATA

1999
ANY GIVEN SUNDAY

1997
U-TURN

1995
NIXON

1994
NATURAL BORN KILLERS

1993
HEAVEN AND EARTH

1991
JFK
THE DOORS

1989
BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY

1988
TALK RADIO

1987
WALL STREET

1986
PLATOON
SALVADOR

1981
THE HAND

1974
SEIZURE

OPENING NIGHT
Friday, March 21
8pm
Biograph Theatre

Sunday, March 23
7pm
Doc Films

Director: Oliver Stone Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto, Carlos Marcovich Music: Alberto Iglesias Editing: Alex Marquez, Elisa Bonora Producer: Jill Oliver Stone, Fernando Sulichin Production Company: Pentagrama Films, Morena Films Source: Mediapro Jose Isbert, 20-2 Edificio ST En