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The Marihuana Story is a film of genre Drama directed by León Klimovsky with Pedro López Lagar
The Marihuana Story (1950)
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Add to a movie listThe Marihuana Story (Spanish: Marihuana) is a 1950 Argentine film directed by León Klimovsky. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
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