TEÓFILO
TEÓFILO
TEÓFILO | “Everyone has a price, but everyone’s price isn’t money”, says former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson about Teófilo Stevenson, Cuba’s most historic athlete and undoubtedly the greatest boxer to never fight for money. A man so loyal to his country, it’s former leader Fidel Castro and it’s socialist system, that taking the millions promoters offered him to turn professional would have been a betrayal to that system and to the people of Cuba whom he valued more than currency. Stevenson would famously repeat the phrase “what’s a million dollars compared to 8 million Cubans”.
Credits
Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Max Kellerman, Bob Arum, Nadia Comanici and the Stevenson family among others.
Contributors
Carmen Cabana
Cinematography
Eduardo Aram
Composer
Joel Viertel, Alex Lee Moyer
Editors
Ethan Higbee
Director
Jorge Padron, Roberto Vina, Saulius Liutkus, Panchito Rodriguez, Ethan Higbee
Producers
Erik Felderhof
Executive Producers