Simon Bolivar has returned to the world spotlight in a new movie by Alberto Arvelo. Already in Venezuelan theaters, the rest of Latin America now awaits the movie's release. Fans are anxious to see the resurrection of El Libertador on the big screen.

The film, starring Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez as Bolivar, hit theatres in Venezuela on Bolivar's birth date, July 24, according to the Associated Press. The two-hour long biopic depicts the life of South America's George Washington from his younger years to his death.

The film is one of the costliest in Latin American cinematic history, the AP reports. It had a budget of $50 million and was filmed in four Venezuelan cities and 12 Spanish ones. "The Liberator" will cover Bolivar's struggle to liberate his native Venezuela as well as the rest of South America from Spanish imperial oppression but also revives Bolivar's dream of a united Latin America.

According to L.A. Weekly, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who now heads the Los Angeles Philharmonic, composed the film's score. He expressed his excitement over film scores and admits he has not written music since his teenage years; however, in the interview with L.A. Weekly, he talks about how he was moved by the movie and sought inspiration from its script.

He is not the only one to find inspiration in the film. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed his support for the movie on his radio program "Contacto con Maduro," according to the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal.

"It is a very good movie ... I recommend it," he said on the program. "It is not a strictly historical Bolivar, because a historian could question some scenes; it is an epic Bolivar, a revolutionary Bolivar," the president added. "'The Liberator' presents a volcano of a Bolivar that is breaking box office records."

The movie's historical accuracy, however, has come into question, even being raised by Maduro himself. In an article in Global Voices, the writer presents two opposing arguments by historians who argue in favor and against the film.

One, Andres Perez Sepulveda, finds no problem -- after all, biopics are not documentaries or history textbooks; however, another historian, Tomas Straka, argues that some viewers will take the film at face value and it contains a left-wing interpretation of history.

One aspect of the film under scrutiny is Bolivar's death, which depicts him murdered, according to the Associated Press. Historians, on the other hand, argue the great man died of tuberculosis at age 47.

The film will be released in the United States this fall.

Watch the trailer in both English:

And Spanish: