Crédits

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  • DirectionJean-Daniel Lafond
  • PhotographyAlberto Feio
  • Sound RecordingPaulo Castro-Lopez
  • Edited byBabalou Hamelin
  • Sound EditingBeno?t Dame, Sylvain Brassard
  • Sound MixFran?ois Arbour
  • MusicBernard Buisson
  • Produced byNathalie Barton, Yves Bisaillon

Coproduced by

InformAction

National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Produced with the financial help of

Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Cable Industry - Telefilm Canada : Equity Investment Program

Qu?bec Film and Television Tax Credit - Gestion SODEC

SODEC Soci?t? de d?veloppement des entreprises culturelles ? Qu?bec

Government of Canada The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit

and the collaboration of

Radio-Canada

RDI

Festivals

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G?meaux Awards 1999 (Montr?al) Finalist for Best Documentary

Statement of intent

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Short summary

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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.