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The King of Havana

El Rey de La Habana

1999

Fresh out of reform school, a young man scrapes by on the desperate streets of 1990s Havana amid hunger, rum, and fleeting romance during one of Cuba's harshest decades. A raw, unsentimental portrait of survival.

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