Visa to Paradise- Visa Al Paraiso

Mexico-2010-112 min                                                                                                                    Director: Lillian Lieberman

Buy tickets for Visa To Paradise-Visa al Paraiso/ Cine+Mas SF Latino Film Festival/ Roxie / Saturday Sept 18 at 7:30PM

In his own words and those of people who knew him and the people he rescued, Gilberto Bosques describes his experiences in Marseilles as Mexico´s Consul General in France between 1939 and 1942, where he saved thousands of Spanish Republicans, Jews, socialists, communists and all sorts of people who were fleeing the Nazis.

Narrada por él mismo, por quienes lo conocieron y por aquellos a los que rescató, Gilberto Bosques describe la acción desarrollada entre 1939 y 1942, en Marseilla, como Cónsul General de México en Francia, donde salvó a varias decenas de miles de republicanos españoles, judíos, socialistas, comunistas y todas aquellas personas que eran perseguidas por el fascismo nazi.

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