Alec the Pole(1991)
A film for 40 Minutes about a man (who had come to Scotland in 1945) returning to his family behind the iron Curtain (but NOT Poland) who thought he had been killed in the war
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A film for 40 Minutes about a man (who had come to Scotland in 1945) returning to his family behind the iron Curtain (but NOT Poland) who thought he had been killed in the war
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1991-10-14
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