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Cumbite
CUBA · 1964

Cumbite

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
return and displacement rural hardship drought and environmental crisis social conflict diaspora
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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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