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CHE: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

By | May 2010

There’s very little back-story, romance, and certainly no cheesy revelatory moments that spoon-feed the uninitiated as to how Ernesto “Che” Guevara came to be a face on dorm room walls…

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