STEVEN SODERBERGH - CHE. LARG

by Steven Soderbergh

Tra i ribelli che nel novembre 1956 salparono per Cuba guidati da Fidel Castro, in un tentativo eroico ma disperato di rovesciare la dittatura corrotta di Fulgencio Batista, c'era anche il giovane argentino Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Il Che, che fino a quel momento è stato medico, impara presto l'arte della guerra per bande e della guerriglia e diventa un elemento indispensabile, adorato dai suoi compagni. È così che, alla guida di una colonna di uomini, dopo durissimi mesi nella giungla della Sierra Maestra, conquista la città di Santa Clara e si riunisce agli altri ribelli per marciare su L'Avana. L'impresa disperata ha successo, Cuba è libera. Il libro allegato ai due DVD - Che. L'argentino e Che. Guerriglia - presenta l'introduzione al film di Bruno Di Marino, una scelta di lettere, articoli e discorsi del Che, estratti dal Diario in Bolivia.

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Published October 1, 2009

About the author

Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. A pioneer of modern independent cinema, Soderbergh is an acclaimed and prolific filmmaker.

Soderbergh's directorial-breakthrough indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) lifted him into the public spotlight as a notable presence in the film industry. At 26, Soderbergh became the youngest solo director to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film garnered worldwide commercial success, as well as numerous accolades. His breakthrough led to success in Hollywood, where he directed the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), the biopic Erin Brockovich (2000) and the crime drama Traffic (2000). For Traffic, he won the Academy Award for Best Director.

He found further popular and critical success with the Ocean's trilogy and film franchise (2001–18); Che (2008); The Informant! (2009); Contagion (2011); Haywire (2011); Magic Mike (2012); Side Effects (2013); Logan Lucky (2017); Unsane (2018); Let Them All Talk (2020); No Sudden Move (2021); and Kimi (2022). His film career spans a multitude of genres, but his specialties are psychological, crime and heist films. His films have grossed over US$2.2 billion worldwide and garnered fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning five.

Soderbergh's films often revolve around familiar concepts which are regularly used for big-budget Hollywood movies, but he routinely employs an avant-garde arthouse approach. They center on themes of shifting personal identities, vengeance, sexuality, morality and the human condition. His feature films are often distinctive in the realm of cinematography as a result of his having been influenced by avant-garde cinema, coupled with his use of unconventional film and camera formats. He often takes cinematography credits on his feature films under the alias Peter Andrews, the given name of his father, and editing credits under Mary Ann Bernard, that of his mother. Many of Soderbergh's films are anchored by multi-dimensional storylines with plot twists, nonlinear storytelling, experimental sequencing, suspenseful soundscapes and third-person vantage points.