Amerikanuak

Name: Amerikanuak
Director: Gorka Bilbao
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-11-19
Duration: 92 min

201092m

★ 0.0

Documentary

A documentary about Basque inmigrants who went to USA looking for work and a better future. Basically, Amerikanuak talks about feeling homesick, about struggling in a different country to make a decent living and about being part of a comunity.

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