Visa to Paradise

Biography of a Hero

8.1

4 votes

2010

1h 48m

Documentary

Overview

Narrated by himself, by those who knew him and those he rescued, Gilberto Bosques describes the action taken between 1939 and 1942, in Marseille, as Consul General of Mexico in France, where he saved tens of thousands of people: Republicans Spanish, Jews, socialists, communists and whatever they were persecuted by fascism.

Directed by Lillian Liberman