Juan Alvarez, a Spanish refugee in Canada, shoemaker, picks up at his home Manuel, a 12-year-old Portuguese teenager, whom he teaches to read, to assert his rights and who speaks of the Spanish civil war.
9th February 1990
36 years ago
1 hour 19 minutes
Finishes at 12:06pm
7/10
63%
67%
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