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Blame It on Fidel (2006)

Blame It on Fidel poster
Original title
La Faute à Fidel!
Directed by
Julie Gavras
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young girl in 1970s France struggles to make sense of the political and ideological changes her parents embrace after they become involved with leftist activism. She tries to piece together her own understanding of the world from the conflicting ideas around her.

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What happens

Blame It on Fidel (French: La Faute à Fidel) is a 2006 French-Italian drama film directed by Julie Gavras. The screenplay, written by Gavras, is based on Domitilla Calamai's Italian novel of the same name. The film stars Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, and Stefano Accorsi. The film covers an array of philosophy and ideology - everything from Communism to Catholicism to Greek and Asian mythology - which the protagonist must reconstruct from confusion into her own set of beliefs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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