The Donald Duck Principle

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    Das Donald-Duck-Prinzip

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    The documentary tells why Donald Duck hit Europe like a bomb after the Second World War, creates a loving psychogram of the drake who’d love to be successful and eventually examines the question how our on self-optimization focused society deals with failure.

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    2014-10-15

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  • Tagline

    Are the comics about the drake Donald Duck just for kids? Certainly not!

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