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Description of an Island

7.019793h 12mMovieDrama

This film with a marked ethnographic nature, which was filmed without a pre-established plan and with a script that crosses the lines of documentary and fiction, tells the story of a group of five Germans who arrive on a remote island in…

DirectorsRudolf Thome·Cynthia Beatt
WritersRudolf Thome·Cynthia Beatt
ProducersRudolf Thome·Cynthia Beatt

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Cast · Directed by Rudolf Thome

GB
Gabrielle Baur
CBCynthia Beatt
Cynthia Beatt
SC
Susanne Christmann
EKEdda Köchl
Edda Köchl

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