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Lingua Franca(2020)
Status: Released
Date: 2020-07-01
62%
16 Votes
Time: 1h 35m
Overview:
Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman.
Languages: English, Russian, Tagalog.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
7107 Entertainment
Movie: Lingua Franca
Top 10 Billed Cast
Isabel Sandoval
Olivia
Lynn Cohen
Olga
Eamon Farren
Alex
Ivory Aquino
Trixie
Lev Gorn
Murray
P.J. Boudousqué
Andrei
Andrea Leigh
Daria
Roman Blat
Viktor
Video Trailer Lingua Franca
Video: ARRAY's LINGUA FRANCA
ARRAY's LINGUA FRANCA
Official Trailer
Laemmle Q&A with Filmmaker Isabel Sandoval
LINGUA FRANCA's Isabel Sandoval on Acting in her own film
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ARRAY's LINGUA FRANCA - Trailer
Official Trailer - Trailer
Laemmle Q&A with Filmmaker Isabel Sandoval - Featurette
LINGUA FRANCA's Isabel Sandoval on Acting in her own film - Featurette
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