Life of Juanita Castro (The)
- Director: Andy Warhol
- Writer: Ronald Tavel
- Producer: Andy Warhol
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Ronald Tavel's THE LIFE OF JUANITA CASTRO is one of Andy Warhol's triumphs as a filmmaker. A playwright (Tavel himself) taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family, at a time when the revolution was bringing back disquieting stories of executions and imprisonments and, particularly, virulent hatred and torture of homosexuals in Castro's Marxist paradise. Hilarious as JUANITA is, it remains a history lesson wherein fascism itself is on display and the audience is encouraged to laugh---but with some discomfort.
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Cast & Characters
Marie Menken as Juanita Castro;
Elecktrah as Raul Castro;
Waldo Diaz Balart as Himself;
Mercedes Ospina as Fidel Castro;
Marina Ospina as Che Guevara;
Ultra Violet;
Ronald Tavel as Stage Director;
Fayette Hauser