The Motorcycle Diaries (film) The Motorcycle Diaries (film) The Motorcycle Diaries () is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla commander and revolutionary Che Guevara. The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. As well as being a road movie, the film is a coming-of-age film; as the adventure, initially centered on youthful hedonism, unfolds, Guevara discovers himself transformed by his observations on the life of the impoverished indigenous peasantry. Through the characters
Strigoi or a hybrid of the two that was said to crave human flesh and blood, particularly of infants. The Croatian Jure Grando, who died in 1656, is often considered the first alleged vampire whose existence is documented. In the earliest published description of the Grando case (in German), from Valvasor's "The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola" (1689), the local term was given as "strigon". Dimitrie Cantemir mentions the "striga" as being a Moldavian and especially Transylvanian belief in his "" (1714–1716), though his version corresponds more closely to the classical notion of a witch or sorceress than a blood-drinking