My Baby Is Black!

My Baby Is Black!

1961 · 75 min · ★ 5.7 · Drama

Black and white unite and are confronted with hatred in two color-line-busting classics from the classic years of exploitation.

Directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert · Written by Jean Rousselot

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