Messrs. Almendros and Jimenez had collaborated on the highly acclaimed

documentary Improper Conduct, about present-day Cuba, and particularly the Castro regime's imprisonment and torture of homosexuals. Mr. Navarro--whom we had met three years earlier (Firing Line #S475)--had initially been quite close to Castro but soon realized his mistake. This show starts with a few minutes of footage from Improper Conduct and then moves into an extraordinarily rich discussion of everything from techniques of cinematography to the reasons people join a revolution to the obtuseness of French intellectuals. One sample: WFB: "Why, given the ease with which information travels these days, does it take ten or twelve years to find out what Fidel Castro is like if you are a French intellectual?" NA: "Yes, that's amazing, especially when you think that common people, very ignorant people, know what's happening. For instance, the Haitians that leave poverty and dictatorship in Haiti seem to know very well that the country not to go to is Cuba."