Amara (2019)
• March 15th, 2019 • 1h 58min
Documentary, History
Overview
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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