The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988)

Original title

Niezwykła podróż Baltazara Kobera

Directed by

Wojciech Jerzy Has

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Poland

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man journeys through 16th-century Germany as the plague ravages the land. He encounters various people and experiences strange, often dark events along the way.

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What happens

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (Polish: Niezwykła podróż Baltazara Kobera) is a 1988 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Rafal Wieczynski, Michael Lonsdale, Adrianna Biedrzyńska, Gabriela Kownacka, Emmanuelle Riva. The film is an adaptation of a novel by Frédérick Tristan that follows a young man as he travels across plague-stricken Germany of the 16th Century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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