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Los Gauchos judíos (1975)

Los Gauchos judíos poster
Original title
Los gauchos judíos
Directed by
Juan José Jusid
Genre
drama film, historical film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of Jewish immigrants flee persecution in Russia and settle in the Argentine pampas at the start of the 1800s. They build a new community on the land while holding onto their traditions.

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What happens

The Jewish Gauchos (Spanish: Los Gauchos judíos) is a 1975 Argentine film based on the novel Los Gauchos Judíos (The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas in its English version) by journalist and writer Alberto Gerchunoff. The story centers on a large group of Jews who escaped from Imperial Russia to Argentina to start a new life near the eastern border of Entre Rios province at the beginning of the 19th century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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