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A Family Love Story

2017•1h 1m•2.0/10
Documentary

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2.0/10(1)

There are promises that are impossible to keep. My uncle José made such a promise as a child in 1963 to my mother Ana Luisa, to whom he declared a special kind of devotion. There are always bonds like this between siblings establishing mysterious complicites. This is what José declared to little Ana Luisa: "The day that you die, I´m going to die with you".

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Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), Nordanstad Films

Language

ES

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Released

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Cast

Ana Benítez Muro

José Benítez Muro

Ana Muro Merino

Patricia Benítez Muro

David Palomino Serrano

Jorge Palomino Benítez

David Martin del Campo

Maricarmen Junio

Carlos Narro

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