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The Other Road(El Otro Camino)

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Producer(s)	Probo Films, Inc.
Director(s)	Oscar Orzabal Quintana
Release Date	2004
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Runtime	90 min
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Film Description

This lost Puerto Rican classic is a black-and-white musical melodrama from the golden years of Latin American cinema. The action unfolds in the picturesque setting of a mountain coffee plantation at harvest time, where a young Puerto Rican Hamlet must deal with his widowed mother's blooming love for a handsome stranger who appears one day to change their lives forever. Embittered by the drunken foreman and his dead father's jealous mother, he resolves not to let the man stay, even as the stranger's nobility and hard work endear him to his mother and the farmworkers.

The film was one of the few major productions of the tiny Puerto Rican film industry. Tragically, this important document was lost soon after its premiere. Found years later rotting on the banks of a river, it has been painstakingly restored and is available to the public for the first time in 40 years. Set in the idyllic Puerto Rican countryside and featuring rare footage of folkloric peasant music, THE OTHER ROAD is a rare glimpse into the bucolic country life of the Puerto Rican past.

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