Cristo Negro

Cristo Negro

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 11, 1963

Runtime

1h 21m

Genres

Drama

User Score

45%

Original Title

Cristo Negro

Production Companies

Copercines, Cooperativa Cinematográfica

Director

Ramón Torrado

Description

After witnessing the murder of her father, the little Mikoa flees the plantation where he works as a slave. Janson, master of the plantation, and his daughter Laura, found lost in the jungle and decide to present to the Father Braulio, a missionary who welcomes him like his son. The young native is raised and educated in the mission, becoming a good man in love with his childhood friend, however, still has much hatred for the person who killed his father, Charles, a cruel white overseer who now at the service of revolutionary blacks.