Visa to Paradise

Mar 13, 2010

1h 48m

★ 8.1

Biography of a Hero

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad

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