Che - Un hombre nuevo

Ernesto Guevara – Che – assassinated at the age of 39, became a true icon of our times. Still to this day, his spirit continues to burn and his legacy, his image, his work and his thoughts have not seized to provoke, enlighten and inspire.

The documentary’s central keys to understanding this image lie in exploring Che’s intimacy, his continuous intellectual and political development, his acute sense of coherence and reasoning, his studies and thoughts dedicated to action and the creation of a new world, his unique poetic perception of reality. The narrative is based on the particular climate that is generated by evoking the memory of Che. It is about presenting fragments of memory from which we begin to develop certain facts or moments in his life – all this told from the intimate and subjective perspective of Ernesto Guevara, assembled using his texts, recording, literal accounts and the archive images of his times as well as through the juxtaposition of all of our findings with the reality of the world today, a world marked by violence and disparity.

After more than ten years of research and studies of his writings, we can now reflect on the mystic image of Che from a new perspective emerging from the depth of his thoughts, and are able to portray him in a dimension that lends new meaning to his public actions and displays the grandeur of his conduct.

Argentinian director Tristán Bauer worked with Latin
American directors such as Estela Bravo, Jorge Denit and
Miguel Littin before he started directing his own feature
films as well as short films, television programs and
documentaries. His work brought him numerous national
and international awards, among which his latest feature
Illuminados por el fuego that was awarded with major film
prizes in America and Europe, including the Special Prize
of the Jury in San Sebastián 2005 and the Best Fiction
Film of New York's Tribeca Festival 2006.
Tristán Bauer co-founded the documentary production
group »Cine Testimonio« that produces films about the social
reality in Latin America; since 2007 he is the director
of »Encuentro«, the TV channel of the Argentine Ministry
of Education. He graduated as a director from the Centro
Experimental del Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía,
Argentina, in 1982.

Selected Filmography as writer, director, producer:

2005 »Blessed by Fire« (Illuminados por el fuego) - feature film
2000 »The Books and the Night« (Los Libros de la Noche) - documentary
1991 »After the Storm« (Después de la tormenta) - feature film