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El mégano
CUBA · 1955

El mégano

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
coal mining working class life rural Cuba pre-revolutionary society labor conditions
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Synopsis

Documentary that portrays the life of a coal-mining town south of Havana, around 1955, prior to the triumph of the revolution.

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