Top Cast
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Ti Bombon
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Catti
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Elvira Cervera
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Martha Evans
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Polinise Jean
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Lorenzo Louiz
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Ambroise Macombe
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Leonardo Morales
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Victoria Nápoles
Overview
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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