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Place of the World Istanbul(1979)
Status: Released
Date: 1979-05-14
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An alcoholic tries to rob an intellectual and suddenly recognises him as his childhood friend. They recall their childhood mischief and their glorious time, which was at the beginning of the First World War, which was at first somewhere far away, but its threatening echo was coming closer every day. In their childhood they dreamed of reaching the very edge of the world, which they thought was in Istanbul. The alcoholic takes the professor to a restaurant, and there their dreams come true. The intellectual got to Istanbul (the name of the restaurant), and the alkie was able to get drunk with his mate's money.
Languages: Slovak.
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Czechoslovakia
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Movie: Place of the World Istanbul
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František Dibarbora
Rastislav Sokol
Ladislav Chudík
Andy Kraus
František Zvarík
Ida Rapaičová
Jozef Adamovič
Sylvia Turbová
Ondrej Jariabek
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An alcoholic tries to rob an intellectual and suddenly recognises him as his childhood friend. They recall their childhood mischief and their glorious time, which was at the beginning of the First World War, which was at first somewhere far away, but its threatening echo was coming closer every day. In their childhood they dreamed of reaching the very edge of the world, which they thought was in Istanbul. The alcoholic takes the professor to a restaurant, and there their dreams come true. The intellectual got to Istanbul (the name of the restaurant), and the alkie was able to get drunk with his mate's money.
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1979-05-14
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