Amara
From Colorado, where he has chosen to live, Fouad Mennana begins to trace his late grandfather - Amara Mennana - an Algerian farmer expropriated from his land and deported to the prisons of French Guiana in 1926.
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2019
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OCUPAÇÃO DOS IMIGRANTES: JEAN-JAQUES DESSALINES
Duration: 0 h 0 m | 2021
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