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A Tale of Five Cities (1951)

A Tale of Five Cities poster
Directed by
Romolo Marcellini, Emil-Edwin Reinert, Montgomery Tully, Géza von Cziffra
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Five separate love stories take place in five European cities. Each story involves a different couple who face obstacles in their relationships.

bittersweetepisodicsentimentalromanticmoodynostalgicmildly dramatic

What happens

A Tale of Five Cities (Italian: Passaporto per l'oriente and released as A Tale of Five Women in the US) is a 1951 British-Italian international co-production comedy drama film directed by Romolo Marcellini, Emil E. Reinert, Wolfgang Staudte, Montgomery Tully, Irma von Cube and Géza von Cziffra. It was written by Maurice J. Wilson, Jacques Companéez, Patrick Kirwan, Richard Llewellyn, Alexander Paal, Piero Tellini and Günther Weisenborn. The five cities cited in the title are: Rome, Paris, Berlin, London, and Vienna. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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