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We Were Strangers *
UNITED STATES · 1949

We Were Strangers *

John Huston
revolutionary uprising political assassination forbidden romance revenge and vengeance underground resistance
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Synopsis

China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolution

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