Bethune (fim na 1965)

Bethune wani shiri ne na Kanada na 1965 dangane da rayuwar Norman Bethune wanda aka watsa akan Gidan Talabijin na CBC.

 Production 
John Kemeny, mai gabatarwa a Hukumar Fina-Finai ta kasa, ya so ya yi wani shiri game da Norman Bethune bayan ya karanta The Scalpel, Sword: Labarin Dr. Norman Bethune na Ted Allan da Sydney Gordon. An yi fim ɗin da kasafin kuɗi na $78,874 ( equivalent to $737,566 a 2023 ).  Kemeny ya gyara fim ɗin yayin da yake haɗawa da rubuta shi tare da Donald Brittain, darektan fim ɗin, kuma Lister Sinclair ne ya ruwaito shi. 

NFB ta ji tsoron ƙirƙirar fim game da Bethune saboda imanin Kwaminisanci da alaƙa da Mao Zedong, amma Brittain ya mai da hankali kan ayyukan Bethune kuma ya bayyana cewa "a wani ƙarni na iya kasancewa mai yaƙi ko troubadour" kuma "Bethune ya yanke shawarar jefawa tare da Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci.  Koyaya, Bethune Marxist ba ya tsoma baki da Bethune mai yawo mai farin ciki".

Reshen rarraba na NFB ya yi imanin cewa za a iya sanya fim din cikin harshen Sinanci na Mandarin a kokarin shiga kasuwannin kasar Sin, wanda ba su yi nasara ba tun 1959. Marcel Cadieux, Mataimakin Sakatare na Harkokin Waje, ya yi adawa da shi kuma Sakataren Harkokin Waje Paul Martin Sr. iyakance fitar da fina-finai zuwa kasar Sin don tattauna batutuwan ilimi ko kimiyya kawai tare da Cadie. Guy Roberge, kwamishinan NFB, ya goyi bayan haƙƙin ƙungiyar na rarraba fina-finai. 

 Saki da liyafar 
An nuna fim din a watan Nuwamba 1964  a Leipzig International Festival a Gabashin Jamus tare da wasu fina-finai na NFB guda biyu, Stravinsky da Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak, lokacin da Ma'aikatar Harkokin Waje ta yi ƙoƙarin hana rarraba shi a cikin ƙasashen gurguzu. Har ila yau, fim din ya sami lambar yabo mafi girma a bikin fina-finai wanda ya haifar da kowace ƙasa ta gurguzu, ban da Albania da Tarayyar Soviet, suna so su watsa fim din. Roberge ya shaidawa Cadieux cewa an yanke shawarar nuna fim din a Jamus ta Gabas kafin hukumar NFB ta hana nuna fim din a kasashen gurguzu. Ya kuma ce ba za a iya amfani da fim ɗin don farfaganda daga ƙasashen gurguzu ba saboda yana mai da hankali kan ayyukan jin kai na Bethune. Duk da haka, Cadieux ya ba da rahoton cewa an soke nuna fina-finan NFB da ba na siyasa ba, ciki har da Bethune, a Jami'ar Jihar Moscow ta daliban kasashen waje na Kanada. 

An nuna fim ɗin akan jerin abubuwan anthology na Gidan Talabijin na CBC akan 13 Janairu 1965,  kuma ya sami kyakkyawan bita.  An nuna fim ɗin a gidan talabijin a Czechoslovakia yayin da yake samuwa a ofisoshin jakadancin Kanada a wasu ƙasashe na kwaminisanci.   Roberge ya sanar da reshen rarraba fim da su daina tallata fim ɗin a ƙasashen gurguzu da Spain, saboda goyon bayan Bethune da ' yan Republican suka yi a lokacin yakin basasar Spain . Hukumar NFB ta soke kwangilar da aka yi na yin fim a gidan talabijin a Poland . 

Grant McLean, wanda ma'aikatar harkokin wajen kasar ta soki fim dinsa na 1947 The People Tsakanin don nuna goyon baya ga jam'iyyar kwaminisanci ta kasar Sin, ya rubuta wata wasika yana sukar yadda aka takaita sakin kuma ya bayyana cewa fim din zai iya inganta fahimtar juna tsakanin bangarorin biyu na labulen karfe . Wasikar tasa ta kasance dalilin da zai sa ba a zabe shi a matsayin kwamishinan hukumar ta NFB ta kwamitin gwamnonin da suka hada da Cadieux.  

Ba a tallata fim ɗin a Amurka kuma kwafi bakwai kawai aka sayar a cikin shekarun farko na fitowar fim ɗin. Ma’aikatar Harkokin Waje ta ɗage takunkumin da ta yi wa fim ɗin a cikin 1971, amma a cikin 1990s ta sami talabijin guda ɗaya da aka nuna a Yugoslavia a cikin 1978. 

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