Blame It on Fidel (2006)

ή ''για όλα φταίει ο Τσίπρας'' ...

Directed by	Julie Gavras
Produced by	Sylvie Pialat Mathieu Bompoint
Music by	Armand Amar
Cinematography	Nathalie Durand
Editing by	Pauline Dairou
Distributed by	Koch-Lorber Films
Release date(s)	10 September 2006 (France) 3 August 2007 (USA)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	France / Italy
Language	French

Blame it on Fidel (French: La Faute à Fidel) is a 2006 French drama film directed by Julie Gavras.

Plot summary

A 9-year-old girl, Anna de la Mesa (played by Nina Kervel), weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris. Her Spanish-born lawyer father Fernando (played by Stefano Accorsi) 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 (played by Julie Depardieu) 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.

The film covers an array of philosophy and ideology - everything from Communism to Catholicism to Greek and Asian mythology - which Anna must reconstruct from confusion into her own set of beliefs. As she negotiates her way through this ideological maze and ultimately internalises her parents' objectives, she must deal with stereotyping, misinformation, the potential hypocrisy of ideology and the potentially false hope of idealism.

Awards

Blame it on Fidel won the MPA's Michel D'Ornano Prize for a promising first French film.