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Pole Poppenspäler (1954)

Pole Poppenspäler poster
Directed by
Arthur Pohl
Genre
drama film
Country
German Democratic Republic, Germany
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
6
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A traveling puppeteer arrives in a small town and becomes entangled with the local people. The story follows his interactions and the quiet conflicts that arise from his outsider status.

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What happens

Pole Poppenspäler is an East German film. It was released in 1954. It is based on the 1874 novel Pole Poppenspäler by 19th-century German author Theodor Storm. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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