The Hands of Che Guevara
Realizador Peter de Kock
Países
Duração 5834 min
Sinopse
The documentary is a search for the severed and missing hands of Che Guevara. The search leads to a number of remarkable people; men and women who were prepared to risk their lives for two dead hands. Through their testimonies and anecdotes a story unfolds. A tale so bizarre and secret that it was banished to the shadowside of history. The documentary The Hands of Che Guevara is a linear tale, built on the stories of several ‘first persons’. All the people involved tell about their part in history, each from their own point of view, featuring themselves as the main character. Each story is coloured, romanticised and embellished and all stories emphasise the intrepidity of the first person. They fit together like beads on a necklace. The stories are told with a great sense for drama and big themes like trust and betrayal, truth and reality, tricks and deceit. By stringing together the small, subjective stories of each person involved, slowly a larger, ‘objective’ history becomes visible. Like a mosaic from which one slowly distances oneself. Although at the end of the movie it becomes apparent that some stories have been spectacularly embellished, the chain-story they form undeniably leads to present time.
The documentary is a search for the severed and missing hands of Che Guevara. The search leads to a number of remarkable people; men and women who were prepared to risk their lives for two dead hands. Through their testimonies and anecdotes a story unfolds. A tale so bizarre and secret that it was banished to the shadowside of history. The documentary The Hands of Che Guevara is a linear tale, built on the stories of several ‘first persons’. All the people involved tell about their part in history, each from their own point of view, featuring themselves as the main character. Each story is coloured, romanticised and embellished and all stories emphasise the intrepidity of the first person. They fit together like beads on a necklace. The stories are told with a great sense for drama and big themes like trust and betrayal, truth and reality, tricks and deceit. By stringing together the small, subjective stories of each person involved, slowly a larger, ‘objective’ history becomes visible. Like a mosaic from which one slowly distances oneself. Although at the end of the movie it becomes apparent that some stories have been spectacularly embellished, the chain-story they form undeniably leads to present time.