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Last Call for Cuba
199952 min 4 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Jean-Daniel Lafond
Production: Nathalie Barton (InformAction Films Inc.)Yves Bisaillon (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Jean-Daniel Lafond
Co-produced by InformAction Films Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada.
Can capitalism save the century's last revolution? Looking for the answer, the journalist Michaëlle Jean travels to Cuba to interview the commandante himself, Fidel Castro. As the camera documents her encounters with colorful characters in strange situations, another story unfolds. Castro has traded the revolution for a fistful of dollars. While he attends a papal mass, foreign businessmen and prostitutes meet on the sidewalks of Havana. Under the filmmaker's watchful eye, Michaëlle Jean plunges into the contradictions of everyday socialist reality. Meanwhile, dazed Cubans wonder if God and Mammon have come to an agreement… for which they must pay the price.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Central America and the CaribbeanEconomic and Industrial DevelopmentSocial Problems
- Economics > Economic Assistance to Foreign CountriesForeign CountriesSocio-Economic Conditions
- Social Issues > Social Issues in Foreign Countries
- Politics and Government > West Indies
Credits
- director
- Jean-Daniel Lafond
- script
- Jean-Daniel Lafond
- producer
- Nathalie Barton
- associate producer
- Yves Bisaillon
- photography
- Alberto Feio
- sound recording
- Paulo Castro Lopez
- editor
- Babalou Hamelin
- sound editing
- Benoît Dame
- Sylvain Brassard
- sound mix
- François Arbour
- music
- Bernard Buisson