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Blame It on Fidel! is a french film of genre Drama directed by Julie Gavras released in USA on 3 august 2007 with Julie Depardieu
Blame It on Fidel! (2006)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 3 august 2007
Length 1h39
Directed by Julie Gavras
OriginFrance
Themes Films about children
Rating74%
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.
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Nine-year-old Anna de la Mesa weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris. Her Spanish-born lawyer father Fernando is inspired by his sister's opposition to Franco and by Salvador Allende's victory in Chile; he quits his job and becomes a liaison for Chilean activists in France. Her mother, Marie, a Marie Claire journalist-turned-writer documenting the stories of women's abortion ordeals, supports her husband and climbs aboard the ideological bandwagon. As a result, Anna's French bourgeois life is over. She must adjust to refugee nannies, international cuisine, and a cramped apartment full of noisy revolutionaries.Actors
Julie Depardieu
(Marie de la Mesa)
Stefano Accorsi
(Fernando de la Mesa)
Marie Kremer
(Isabelle)
Martine Chevallier
(« Bonne Maman »)
Raphaël Personnaz
(Mathieu)
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