Ernesto “Che” Guevara: The Bolivian Diary
NR, 94 min.
Directed by Richard Dindo, Narrated by Judith Burnett, Voices by , Starring Robert Kramer.

Not reviewed at press time. Che Guevara, the handsome, bearded, and bereted Sixties poster boy for the radical left, is coming into vogue again with a spate of new biographical books and movies about to take center stage. This documentary focuses on the last year of Guevara’s life during which he struggled to launch a Communist revolution in Bolivia. This comrade of Fidel Castro was executed in Bolivia in 1967. While the images survey the sites where Guevara and his troops camped in the Bolivian mountains, excerpts from the diary he kept are read aloud in English. The Texas Documentary Tour is sponsored by the Austin Film Society, the UT Department of RTF, The Austin Chronicle, KLRU-TV, and SXSW film.

This article appears in January 24 • 2003.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.