Alberto Granado his and Guevara's trip around South America. Granado has a brief cameo following the epilogue of the film. Alberto Granado Alberto Granado Jiménez (August 8, 1922March 5, 2011) was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America. Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. He authored the memoir "Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary", which served as a reference for the 2004 film "The Motorcycle Diaries", in which he was played by Rodrigo
Jure Grando and written a book ("The Vampire") on the story. Today, Kringa has embraced the story of Jure Grando Alilović and have opened up a vampire themed bar aimed at attracting tourists to the town. The Juraj Dobrila gymnasium in Pazin created a short film called "Vampire of My Homeland" ("Vampir moga zavičaja") based on the writings from Valvasor. The folklore related to the "štrigun" has recently been documented and examined by numerous scientists at the University of Zagreb. Jure Grando Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1579 – 1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia)