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Little Friend (1934)

Little Friend poster
Directed by
Berthold Viertel
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young girl tries to hold her family together as her parents' marriage falls apart. She struggles with the adults around her who are wrapped up in their own problems.

melancholictenseslow-burnintimateemotionally chargedbleaksombercharacter-driven

What happens

Little Friend is a 1934 British drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Matheson Lang, Nova Pilbeam and Lydia Sherwood. The film was based on a novel by Ernst Lothar and adapted for the screen by Margaret Kennedy and Christopher Isherwood. The score is by the Austrian composer then in exile Ernst Toch. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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