Castro’s daughter’s life to be made into a film

A film is to be made about Fidel Castro's illegitimate daughter, Alina Fernandez (pictured, right), who since slipping quietly out of Cuba in 1993 has been one of her father's most outspoken critics. The movie is based on Fernandez's memoir Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba, which describes in intimate detail her life growing up in Cuba and the changes that occurred within the country during her father's reign - for example, at the age of three, she remembers Mickey Mouse being replaced on the television with public executions.

"For the last 20 years, I have been trying to show what is going in my country, trying to make people be a little more aware of how glorious we are and how many limitations we have," Fernandez told the Hollywood Reporter.

It should prove an interesting film. Fernandez, 53, the product of an affair Castro had while married to his first wife, was kept a secret from even Castro's closest friends. She only learnt she was his daughter at the age of 10. In 1993, disguised as a Spanish tourist, she fled first to Spain, and then to the US, where she has lived in exile ever since.