Donald Sumpter
Also Known As: 唐纳德·桑普特, دونالد سامپتر
Biography: Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid-1960s. One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. He appeared in Doctor Who again in the 1972 serial The Sea Devils with Jon Pertwee. He also appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. His early film work included a lead role as real life British criminal Donald Neilson in the 1977 film, The Black Panther. He also appeared in many television films and serials, including adaptations of Dickens' novels: Nicholas Nickleby in 2001, Great Expectations in 1999 and Bleak House in 1985. Also in 1985, he was remembered for the part of villain Ronnie Day in Big Deal. He played the part of suspected serial killer Alexander Bonaparte Cust in the (1992) Agatha Christie's Poirot episode, The ABC Murders. He has also appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders, The Bill, Holby City, and A Touch of Frost. He also had a recurring role as Uncle Ginger in the Children's BBC series The Queen's Nose. He played Harold Chapple in Our Friends in the North, and portrayed the physicist Max Planck in Einstein and Eddington. He has also been seen as Kemp in the horror-drama series Being Human. In 2011 he portrayed Maester Luwin in the HBO series Game of Thrones. His film appearances include The Constant Gardener (2005), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Enigma (2001) and Ultramarines: The Movie (2010).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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Birthday: February 13, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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Eastern Promises
Overview: A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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The Constant Gardener
Overview: Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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Enigma
Overview: The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-22
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Grushko
Overview: A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head of the Mafia Investigations Division of the local police force, facing new challenges as the internicine gang rivalries escalate towards war on the streets.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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K-19: The Widowmaker
Overview: When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-19
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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Overview: The Constant Gardener featurette.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-10
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Way of the Morris
Overview: As quintessentially homegrown as a game of cricket or a plate of fish-and-chips, Morris dancing is one of Englands most ancient roots traditions. And yet to your average man on the street, its seen as little more than a national joke. And a bad national joke at that. Something to ridicule. Something to be embarrassed about. A heartfelt docu-ballad in praise of birthplace, bloodline and rural brotherhood, WAY OF THE MORRIS follows Tim on a deeply personal journey from the barleyfields of his childhood to the killing fields of The Somme, as he traces the poignant link between the spirited folk revival of the mid-1970s and the true story of the young Adderbury Morris side so decimated by the carnage of the First World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-01
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Into the Storm
Overview: This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-31
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Among Us
Overview: An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a suspicious stranger with exceptional gifts changes their lives in an unexpected way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-03-19
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-27
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The Murder at Road Hill House
Overview: In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was snatched from his bed at night and murdered.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-25
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The Point Men
Overview: Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their leader must get to the bottom of things before the killer(s) plan is complete.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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London Boulevard
Overview: A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-10
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Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Overview: A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no answer from them. The squad investigates to find out what has happened there.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Overview: Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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The Black Panther
Overview: A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-26
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I Am a Groupie
Overview: A bored teenage girl decides that she wants to meet rock stars, and the best way to do that is to become a groupie. She finds herself going on the road with a rock band called Opal Butterfly, and soon discovers that being a rock band's groupie isn't as glamorous or exciting as she thought it would be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
Overview: The Master joins forces with The Sea Devils to take over the world, unless The Doctor and The Royal Navy can stop them.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-01
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Hardcore
Overview: Aka Hardcore, aka Frankly Fiona. The heavily fictionalised fantastical autobiography of the fantastic 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond, played by Fiona herself!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-17
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
Overview: The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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Bypass
Overview: Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods... In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and protect those he loves?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-14
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Aimée
Overview: A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run away from a career as a fabulously successful rock promoter and an anguished private life. Now he's facing the hardest of all moral choices - a life or death decision which is to have a shattering impact on the lives of new friends who offer shelter, and on the new arrival on the seemingly tranquil scene.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Overview: Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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Night After Night After Night
Overview: There's a killer on the loose in London, and whilst our typically craggy copper DI Rowan investigates, Judge Lomax is busy in court, dishing out harsh sentences to everyone who comes before him.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Curse of the Pink Panther
Overview: Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-12
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Hello Sailor!
Overview: Cast and crew discuss the making of The Sea Devils, from the television series Doctor Who.
Genres: Science Fiction Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-14
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The Tom Machine
Overview: 100 years in the future: Tom is both bored and worried in the humdrum, violent times. Also he is unable to remember what his job is and thus decides to leave. But everyone keeps telling him that is impossible ...
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-20
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Coalition
Overview: Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-28
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In the Heart of the Sea
Overview: In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
Genres: Thriller Drama Adventure Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-03
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Mad Jack
Overview: Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-04
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The Breaking of Colonel Keyser
Overview: Battalion Commander of the Third Wiltshire Light Infantry is Colonel Keyser. On recent evidence, he is either a psychopathic personality or something very close to it. He could turn out to be the best battalion commander in the division. As the Allies prepare for invasion in 1944, will his reputed psychopathic personality be a good or bad thing, when leading his men into D-Day?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-17
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Einstein and Eddington
Overview: A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-29
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Dracula
Overview: The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is infected with syphilis and therefore cannot consummate their marriage. Arthur has laid his hopes of being cured on the enigmatic count; as it is said that Dracula has extraordinary powers. But these supernatural powers have sinister origins. The Count is a vampire. Soon Arthur realizes his serious mistake as all hell breaks loose and the Count infects others with his ancient curse. But Dracula has not counted on the young Lord acquiring the assistance of the Dutch Vampire expert Prof. Abraham Van Helsing.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-28
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The Saliva Milkshake
Overview: Howard Brenton's play, written for television, examines terrorism and the state's complex relationship with it and language surrounding it.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-06
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Limonov: The Ballad
Overview: A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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The Lost Continent
Overview: An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-19
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The Window Cleaner
Overview: A window cleaner suffers from a fear of heights, until he is seduced by one of his customers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Great Expectations
Overview: A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-12
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Richard III
Overview: A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Overview: Two minor characters from the play "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-08
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Bleak Moments
Overview: Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-30
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Heist
Overview: In 1303, a ragtag bunch of crooks and ne'er-do-wells plot to take revenge on Edward I, the King of England.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Being Human
Overview: One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-06
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Stardust
Overview: Jim MacLaine is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of success begins to turn sour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
Overview: In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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The Walking Stick
Overview: A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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Mr. Axelford's Angel
Overview: A romantic tale of a scatty secretary and a stuffy boss.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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Antony & Cleopatra
Overview: Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvia, spends his time in Egypt, living a life of decadence and conducting an affair with Queen Cleopatra. In Antony's absence, Caesar and Lepidus worry about Pompey's increasing strength.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-08
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Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
Overview: The Second Doctor and Jamie arrive on what appears to be a space station called the "Wheel in Space" it's here that they meet Zoe Herriot a young parapsychology librarian, The Doctor hits his head concussing him leaving Jamie and Zoe to defend off the Cybermen from taking over "The Wheel in Space."
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Catchpenny Twist
Overview: Roy and Martyn want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision Song Contest. So who thinks they are working for British Army Intelligence? And why has someone sent them two bullets through the post?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-05
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Tangier Cop
Overview: Yaasin, a policeman from Tangier who has almost become an alcoholic, spends most of his time in an exclusive brothel. Several characters arrive in the city at the same time: the millionaire Eric Burns; the German woman Eva Miller who, with her little daughter Gudrun, makes herself a living by doing frauds and small thefts; the smart gangster Rustum Wadi who is looking for a talisman that at that moment is in the hands of Andrews, a homosexual British collector. Yaasin is supposed to protect Burns, but when Andrew's corpse appears the case takes an unexpected turn.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Bad Ronald
Overview: A teenager, Ronald, unintentionally causes the death of a young girl on a beach. So that the police do not find him, his mother locks him in a cubicle, under the stairs of the house. On her death, the house was rented to an English family.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-11
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A Light That Shines
Overview: ' I'm a spy, you know ... I've got to report back.' Conroy has been asked by the teaching order's recruitment officer Brother Martin Jerome , to be guide and help to the most promising candidate, 16-year-old Stephen. To Stephen it is just another of the pressures on him at this critical time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-11
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The Phoenician Scheme
Overview: The story of a family and a family business.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-23
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