Paula(2016)
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
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Paula
Otto Modersohn
Clara Westhoff
Rainer Maria Rilke
George
Fritz Mackensen
Martha Vogeler
Fritz Overbeck
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Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
Release Date
2016-12-15
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6.3
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