A Haitian son returns from fifteen years in Cuba to find his home village afflicted with the double plague of drought and strife. A Cuban production from the director of Memories of Underdevelopment. In Spanish.
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Ti Bombon
Catti
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Director · Jacques Roumain Story Ramón F. Suárez Cinematographer
First release August 31, 1964 · Produced in Cuba
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ICAIC
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Cuba
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Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Cuba · August 31, 1964
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No release date listed for United States.
Spain
March 15, 1965 · Theatrical
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