Visa to Paradise

2010 | 108 minutes | 8.1 ★ (4)

Visa to Paradise
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    Narrated by himself, by those who knew him and those he rescued, Gilberto Bosques describes the action taken between 1939 and 1942, in Marseille, as Consul General of Mexico in France, where he saved tens of thousands of people: Republicans Spanish, Jews, socialists, communists and whatever they were persecuted by fascism.

  • Release Date

    13 March 2010

  • DirectingLillian Liberman
  • Budget

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    $0.00

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