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Ramona
UNITED STATES · 1910

Ramona

D.W. Griffith
forbidden love racial discrimination class conflict land dispossession social injustice
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Synopsis

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the greed and injustice of the white landowners.

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