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A Translator (2018)
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A Translator (2018)
Original name: Un traductor
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based on a true story.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot: university professor, hospital, sick child, treatment, translator, catastrophe, investigation, tragedy, evacuation, law enforcement, threat, woman, latina, pregnancy, bare breasts, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, sleeping pill, art exhibition, food shortage, nightshift, bare chested male, radiation, radiation sickness, explosion ...
Time: 80s
Place: chernobyl, havana cuba

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