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Melancholy Tales

Melancholy Tales

6.0(2 votes)
1975
1h 35m
DramaComedy

A series of four stories written by the Dutch writer Heere Heeresma, interpreted by four different directors. A confirmed bachelor bumps into his secretary after work. An old man just wants to be left alone at Christmas time. A former sailor yearns to get back to the sea, away from his clarinet playing wife. A shopkeeper in a rowboat gets into an argument with a postman on a bicycle.

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Companies:
Sigma Film Productions

Languages

Original:nl
Spoken:
Dutch

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