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Elián
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Runtime
108 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
1.95
Director
Ross McDonnell, Tim Golden
Writers
Tim Golden

Elián

2017 · ⭐ 6.5 · Votes: 4
“A boy caught between two worlds”
The story of Elián Gonzalez a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits and how the fight for his future changed the course of U.S.-Cuba relations. Featuring personal testimony interviews and a news archive this documentary recounts Elián’s remarkable rescue on Thanksgiving Day in 1999 after his mother and 10 others fleeing Cuba perished at sea and the custody battle between the boy’s Cuban father and his Miami-based relatives.

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