Waiting for Fidel | movie | 1975 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that F | dG1fa1JKZHFfbjRZUXM

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00:00Prime Minister, would you tell me your thoughts on a thing that in Canada we prize highly?

00:11Your thoughts on the matter of parliamentary democracy.

00:15What about having a system of government that is answerable to that elected body?

00:22And you had a revolution, and this wasn't done with pop guns or bows and arrows.

00:30It was a pretty serious business.

00:36Suppose we were to ask him, look, Prime Minister, look, Dr. Castro, did the United States make you a communist?

00:44First, cut you off, and they cut off supplies, and they wouldn't allow anything to be shipped into Cuba,

00:56and they wouldn't allow anything to be shipped from Cuba into the US, and they cut you off.

01:02It was a natural development for me to become a communist.

01:05Would he say that? What would he say?

01:06I think that maybe it works in two ways.

01:09I think, in a sense, the antagonism of the United States has served Cuba very well,

01:13because what it's done has been a terrific emotional unifier.

01:17They've used this antagonism, enabled to keep a sense of solidarity.

01:22There's no real fulfillment in life if your life is based only on the accumulation of materialism and selfish...

01:30Let's face it, any mature man accepts that.

01:32Any really intellectually...

01:34In that case, there are quite a few people who are not mature.

01:37Well, of course, that's the problem.

01:38Because they don't accept it.

01:39But their sons might, and their sons' sons might.

01:41That's what the hippie movement was all about,

01:43was the realization that the upper middle class and affluence that these men were enjoying,

01:48that wasn't enough, and that's what developed the hippie movement.

01:51There are so many things we have to see.

02:11Alamar, for instance.

02:13A whole new city being constructed by amateur builders

02:17in an attempt to meet the incredible housing shortages.

02:27AnAMArieben canсти Miami.

02:36I mean, it's not Brazil but Israel.

02:37I mean, I guess I guess they were very wrong,

02:38but now, it doesn't have to be fair.

02:40Well, I mean, I guess...