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