An ordinary looking, plump, late middle-aged woman wearing glasses would hardly make you think of a mysterious paramour of dictators or a CIA and FBI operative, but that is exactly the story that Marita Lorenz has to tell. In Wifried Huisman’s docu DEAR FIDEL (2001, 90 min), the daughter of a German sea captain recalls how she became the mistress of Fidel Castro soon after the Cuban revolution in 1959. After being six months pregnant with his baby, she was drugged and given a near fatal abortion. She was then recruited by the CIA and Mafia to assassinate Castro. Dubbed as “possibly one of the most fascinating and controversial people of the 20th century”, Ms. Lorenz weaves many very entertaining stories involving the CIA, Mafia agents Johnny Roselli and Santos Trafficante, the FBI, and, yes, Lee Harvey Oswald. Screening is presented by the Goethe-Institute.