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Last Call for Cuba (1999)

Last Call for Cuba poster
Directed by
Jean-Daniel Lafond
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada

How it feels

A journalist meets with Fidel Castro to discuss Cuba's survival after the fall of the Soviet Union. The film looks at how Canadian tourism and capitalism interact with Cuba's socialist system and its national project.

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What happens

L'Heure de Cuba est un film documentaire de Jean-Daniel Lafond, sorti en 1999. Avec la chute du mur de Berlin et la fin du communisme de l’ex-URSS, le régime communiste cubain perdure. Il assure la pérennité de Cuba malgré le blocus américain. Est-ce que l’ouverture au capitalisme canadien, notamment dans l’industrie touristique, sert le socialisme cubain ? Le commandant Fidel Castro accepte de recevoir la journaliste Michaëlle Jean qui vient lui demander l’heure juste. Elle va faire l’expérience des contradictions du quotidien socialiste cubain en même temps que de l’efficacité de son projet national. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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