Castro’s Daughter Gets a Biopic

Robert Moresco, producer of Million Dollar Baby and Crash, has partnered with Artist Relations Group to produce a new biopic on the life of Fidel Castro’s exiled daughter, Alina Fernandez.

Variety says the story, set in 1958, begins after Castro seized control of Cuba, with Fernandez as a young girl naive to the fact that the bearded cigar smoker who secretly visits her mother and the man she sees on TV are one and the same.

Fernandez, who fled Cuba disguised as a Spanish tourist in 1993, published her life story, Castro’s Daughter: An Exile’s Memoir of Cuba, will consult on the film. The plot will also interweave other historical perspectives.