

Soderbergh made a communist epic and filmed it like a fever dream—here's how the sausage got made.
Direction
Soderbergh's handheld chaos becomes method, not madness.
Acting
Del Toro's total immersion in a role that consumed him.
Production
Shooting two languages, two terrains, zero studio notes.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soderbergh shot Che entirely in Puerto Rico and Spain, refusing Cuba despite the subject, calling the logistics 'impossible theater.'
The documentary reveals Soderbergh's RED camera experiments here directly shaped his digital aesthetic for the next decade.