Ernesto

Oct 6, 2017

2h 4m

★ 7.0

Overview

Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He meets revolutionist Che Guevara. When civil war breaks out in Bolivia, he decides to join Guevara’s revolutionary army under the name of “Ernesto Medico”.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Kino Films

RTV Comercial de Cuba

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Cast

Freddy Maemura Hurtado

Joe Odagiri

Hideo Mori

Kento Nagayama

Che Guevara

Juan Miguel Valero Acosta

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