ABC Book

ABC Book

1976•8m•7.9/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.9/10(4)

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

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Production

WFO Film Studio

Language

PL

Status

Released

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