Cumbite (1964)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 22M
Director : Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Synopsis
A Haitian son returns from fifteen years in Cuba to find his home village afflicted with the double plague of drought and strife. A Cuban production from the director of Memories of Underdevelopment. In Spanish.
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