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A Thought of Ecstasy(2018)
Status: Released
Date: 2018-01-25
44%
29 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
Overview:
August 2019. Frank recognizes his own story of twenty years ago in a recently published book. He remembers Marie, with whom he had a relationship before she moved to the United States and disappeared from his life. Frank sets out in search of her and finds himself in a USA petrified by a heat wave and lost in suspicion and political paranoia. He heads into the desert in pursuit of Marie.
Languages: German, English.
Countries:
Germany,
United States of America,
Switzerland
ProductionCompanies:
Erdbeermund Filmproduktion
Independent Partners
Movie: A Thought of Ecstasy
Top 8 Billed Cast
Rolf Peter Kahl
Frank Patrick
Deborah Kara Unger
Liz Archer
Ava Verne
Nina
Lena Morris
Marie / Marie's Double
Buddy Giovinazzo
Radio Presenter (voice)
Karim Cherif
Skid (voice)
Lucie Pohl
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