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Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary (Shooting Script)

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Published for the first time in the U.S.—one of the vital two diaries on which the movie The Motorcycle Diaries is based—the moving and from time to time hilarious account of Che Guevara and Alberto Granado’s eight-month tour of South The us in 1952.

In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires circle of relatives, made up our minds to explore their continent. They set off from Cordoba in Argentina on a Norton 500cc motorbike and traveled through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. The duo’s adventures vary from the suspenseful (stowing away on a cargo ship, exploring Incan ruins) to the comedic (falling in love, drinking, fighting…) to the serious (volunteering as firemen and at a leper colony). They worked as day laborers along the way—as soccer coaches, medical assistants, and furniture movers. The poverty and exploitation of the native population began the process that used to be to turn Ernesto—the debonair, fun-loving student—into Che, the revolutionary who had a profound have an effect on on the history of several nations.

Originally published in Spanish in Cuba in 1978, the first English translation used to be published by Random House UK in 2003. The movie, based on Granado’s and Che’s diaries, directed by Walter Salles (Central Station, Behind the Sun), used to be produced by Robert Redford and others. Shown at the Sundance Film Festival, it generated great reviews and a frenzied auction for distribution rights, which used to be won by Center of attention Features. Granado, now 82, used to be a consultant to Salles all over the production. 10 b/w photos.

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