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Life of Juanita Castro (The)

Country: United States, Language: English, 66 mins

  • Director: Andy Warhol
  • Writer: Ronald Tavel
  • Producer: Andy Warhol

CGiii Comment

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.


There was a trailer...but, it has since disappeared.

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