During the 1960's the Cuban Revolution was in the center of the French intellectual debates. On the other hand, the revolutionary government invited Europeans to collaborate with the development of new institutions as the ICAIC. Chris Marker, invited by the institute, established exchanges with Cuban film-makers and made the two documentary films that are analyzed in this article: Cuba si (1961) and La bataille des dix millions (1970). If the first one refutes the critiques addressed to Fidel by the conservative press, the second one turns itself to the left which was abandoning the Cuban model.
Cuban Revolution; Chris Marker; documentary film; circulation of ideas; direct democracy