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Giovanni Früh
Giovanni Früh

Alfred

Olga Piazza
Olga Piazza

Julia

Jürgen Brügger
Jürgen Brügger

Entführer / Stimme

Janet Haufler
Janet Haufler

Frau Thérèse

Walo Lüönd
Walo Lüönd

Nachtwächter

George Reinhart
George Reinhart

Entführer

Ernst Kühni
Ernst Kühni

Entführer

Peter Siegenthaler
Peter Siegenthaler

Prediger

Michael Maassen
Michael Maassen

Forscher

Mathias Gnädinger
Mathias Gnädinger

Taxifahrer

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    Without knowing it, Alfred and Julia live in a land of pure invention. It is the richest and most beautiful land in the world. From a height, this land looks like a piece of felt, from close up like a clean and tiny park. The footpaths are lined with benches and the streets with banks. Alfred and Julia have been married for 8 years, are childless, and live on the 16th floor of a new building. Thanks to their various crises, they have got to know each other somewhat better, but their most outstanding characteristic remains their mediocrity. On Friday, August 12th 1977, a mysterious epidemic breaks out in their country. The mass media ensure that the news is widely broadcast. The authorities order a ban on information, but those concerned break their imposed silence. On Sunday evening, it becomes known that the epidemic was nomore than a kind of "dress rehearsal" for a real emergency. Alfred and Julia continue to live in a land of pure invention - but now they are conscious of the fact.

  • Release Date

    1979-08-07

  • Average

    6.4

  • Rating:

    3.2 starts
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    Deutsch
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