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Great movie about young Che Guevara before his involvement with the Cuban revolution. It shows Che as a very impressionistic young man, concerned about the poor and disenfranchised peasants in South America. He dreams of uniting all native South Americans, regardless of national boundaries. He is compassionate, handsome, daring, and likeable. He came from a privileged family. This was a film with great cinemaphotography, humor, adventure and drama. I give it a definite thumbs up. BTW, recent released CIA records reveal that Bolivian Rangers, trained by US Army and CIA, captured Che after a series of running battles with his small group of men. The Bolivians decided to execute him, rather than put him on trial. The US's CIA wanted to keep him alive so they could interogate him in Panama. There seemed not to be a place for him in the Cuban communist movement after the revolution. He was more of a Maoist than a Soviet Leninist/Stalinist. Turns out the Soviet Union advised Castro to cut him loose.