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Gallego (1988)

Gallego poster
Directed by
Manuel Octavio Gómez
Genre
drama film
Country
Cuba, Spain
Runtime
1h 56m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a Galician man who moves to Havana in the 1910s and lives through many decades up to the Cuban Revolution. It shows his daily life and struggles as an immigrant in a changing country.

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What happens

Galego (en castelán: Gallego) é un filme de produción galego-cubana de 1988, dirixido por Manuel Octavio Gómez. Está baseada na novela Gallego, do escritor cubano Miguel Barnet, e narra a vida dun emigrante galego, Manuel (Sancho Gracia), na Habana, dende a década de 1910 ata a Revolución Cubana. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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