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The Physics of Sorrow

7.6201927mMovieAnimationDrama

Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.

DirectorTheodore Ushev
WritersTheodore Ushev·Georgi Gospodinov
ProducersMarc Bertrand·Julie Roy

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Cast · Directed by Theodore Ushev

RSRossif Sutherland
Rossif Sutherland
(voice)
DSDonald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
(voice)
MTManuel Tadros
Manuel Tadros
(voice)
TUTheodore Ushev
Theodore Ushev
(voice)
XDXavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan
(voice)

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