20 Rules! For Sylvie

20 Rules! For Sylvie

2014•1h 36m•4.0/10

Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.0/10(2)

Adalbert, a paranoid, overprotective single dad imposes a set of 20 rules on his daughter Sylvie before she leaves the small town of Ormont-Dessus for university. Making sure that she obeys them perfectly, he secretly follows her to Basel, but ends up falling in with a party crowd and breaking all the rules himself.

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Production

Jacques à Bâle Pictures

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Carlos Leal

Carlos Leal

Adalbert

Viola von Scarpatetti

Sylvie

Bettina Dieterle

Bettina Dieterle

Tig o'Bitty

Joël von Mutzenbecher

Ajax

Steve Devonas

Siril

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