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National Theatre Live: Obsession(2017)
Status: Released
Date: 2017-05-11
66%
5 Votes
Time: 2h 0m
Overview:
Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.
Languages: English.
Countries:
Netherlands,
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies: 
David Binder Productions
Barbican Theatre Productions
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Movie: National Theatre Live: Obsession
Top 6 Billed Cast
Jude Law
Gino
Halina Reijn
Hanna
Gijs Scholten van Aschat
Joseph
Chukwudi Iwuji
The Priest/The Inspector
Robert de Hoog
Johnny
Aysha Kala
Anita
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