Cast

Fidel Castro

1926 – 2016

Active years (films on this site): 1968–2008
Genres: Documentary History War
Schools and movements: Balkan Cinema Contemporary European Art Cinema Latin American Cinema

Directors worked with

Fernando Solanas1 film

Emir Kusturica1 film

Biography

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president from 1976 to 2008, and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, under his administration Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.

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Awards and honours

International

Order of the Nile 1959
Bintang Mahaputera Adipurna 1960
Lenin Peace Prize 1961
Hero of the Soviet Union 1963
Order of Lenin 1963
Collar of the Order of the White Lion 1972
Grand Star of People's Friendship 1972
Order of Georgi Dimitrov 1972
Order of Lenin 1972
Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania 1972
Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1973
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" 1975
Order of the October Revolution 1976
Order of Jamaica 1977
Order of Merit 1977
Order of Karl Marx 1986
Order of Klement Gottwald 1986
Order of Lenin 1986
Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star 1986
Grand Cross of the Order of the Aztec Eagle 1988
Order of Eduardo Mondlane, 1st class 1988
Order of Hồ Chí Minh 1989
Order of Agostinho Neto 1992
Grand Collar of the Order of Good Hope 1998
Grand Cross of the National Order of Mali 1998
Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella 1998
Order of Belize 1999
Emblem of the Republic 2000
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class 2000
Order of the Liberator 2000
Order of the Crown of the Realm 2001
Order of Omar Torrijos Herrera 2009
Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo 2009
Order of the Quetzal 2009
Order of Merit, 1st class 2010
Order of Timor-Leste 2010
Confucius Peace Prize 2014
Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights
Order of Glory and Honor
Order of José Martí

2 films on this site

The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 · Fernando Solanas · IMDb 7.6 · Cast
Maradona by Kusturica 2008 · Emir Kusturica · IMDb 6.7 · Cast