EL CRAZY CHE

By Nicolas IACOUZZI, Pablo CHEHEBAR

METICHE FILMS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2015

THE CRAZY CHE shares the amazing lifestory of Guillermo "Bill" Gaede, an argentine counterspy that served Cuban Secret Service as well as the FBI during the Cold War, smuggling technological information from AMD and Intel. An incredible story that borders fiction with very real facts.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2014
DOCBA WIP
Doc Buenos Aires 2014
DAC Award & Ecuador TV7 Award
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2015
Panorama
Ventana Sur 2015
Video Library
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Animation, Thriller
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nicolas IACOUZZI, Pablo CHEHEBAR
    • Writer(s)
    • Nicolas IACOUZZI, Pablo CHEHEBAR
    • Producer(s)
    • Pablo CHEHEBAR (METICHE FILMS), Nicolas IACOUZZI (METICHE FILMS), Rocio FURMENTO (METICHE FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • THE CRAZY CHE is a documentary about one of the most amazing cases of industrial espinage. The story of an argentine engineer who self became a cold war spy while working at AMD & Intel Corporations. He provided the Cuban Government with technical information from the semiconductor industry, allowing Cuba and the USSR to improve their industry. In 1992 Gaede turned himself over to the CIA and FBI, working in a counter espionage operation which lead him to unexpected consequences.