Lieber Fidel. Maritas Geschichte

Dear Fidel - Marita′s Story

In 1959, the 19-year-old Marita Lorenz fell madly in love with Fidel Castro when the victor of the revolution came on board the German cruise ship "Berlin". After eight months of love and happiness, Fidel loses interest in her.

Her happiness turns into a nightmare when she loses her child because of a forced abortion in the sixth month of her pregnancy. She lets herself be recruited by the CIA, which wants to get her to kill the revolutionary leader. But she betrays her mission - "love was stronger," says the now 61-year-old Marita. She lands between the fronts of a dirty war. Working for the CIA, she gets to know later Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. She spies for the FBI, moves in high Mafia circles and constantly changes fronts. Now she lives as an impoverished pensioner in New York and wants to go back to Fidel. But what will Fidel say, will she be able to enter Cuba at all?
Dear Fidel - Marita′s Story is a political thriller about a very personal, moving and bizarre journey through the turmoil of the Cold War from Bremen via New York and Miami to Havana.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH