Paul Esser
Also Known As: Пауль Эссер
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kapellen, Belgium
Adult: No
Birthday: April 24, 1913
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 20, 1988
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Unser Willi ist der Beste
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Sohn ohne Heimat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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The Spessart Inn
Overview: Countess Franziska "is kidnapped" by a band of robbers. However, her father is not willing to pay the ransom so Franziska changes sides.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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New Mischief by Emil
Overview: Emil's reputation for being a troublemaker makes the Svensson family's neighbours take up a collection for sending the boy off to America. But even if he among other unfortunate mishaps causes his father to get stuck in the outhouse window and get bitten by crawfish, all is forgotten when he skillfully wins the family a free horse. And when Alfred the farmhand gets seriously ill, Emil puts his own life on the line, venturing into a snow storm to get his best friend to a doctor before it is too late.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-10-21
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Pippi Longstocking
Overview: Pippi Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's cottage Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika in this compilation film of the classic Swedish TV series. This was followed by Pippi Goes on Board.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-05-09
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Heart of Stone
Overview: Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.
Genres: Family Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Daughters of Darkness
Overview: Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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The Haunted Castle
Overview: The ghosts of thieves help a beautiful young countess save her inherited castle from modern developers in this comic horror/musical.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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Vater sein dagegen sehr
Overview: Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his sister's death. Lutz is supposed to take in their children Traudl and Rudi and the dog Leo. Margot did not expect so much attachment...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-12
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Beautiful Adventure
Overview: The teacher Dorothee Durand, young and single, travels from England to the picturesque south of France to find the remaining remnants of her family. Her search takes her to Nimes, where she meets the likewise single Marius, a hotelier, who immediately falls in love with the beautiful woman. And so it turns out that after traveling through half of France, Dorothy not only finds her relatives, but also ...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-09-29
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Ich zähle täglich meine Sorgen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-05-11
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The Endless Night
Overview: Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Berlin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-08
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Herzblatt oder wie sag' ich's meiner Tochter?
Overview: Widower Paul always delayed talking to his daughter about sex. But when workers on a nearby construction site are falling down their scaffold because 16 years old "Herzblatt" is tanning naked, he feels he has to take action. In the hope she'll learn herself what consequences the difference between boys and girls has, he tries to get her a boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-09-29
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Der Schinderhannes
Overview: 1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Overview: A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-06-21
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Rebel Flight to Cuba
Overview: Peter escapes a firing squad and leaves the island of San Quinto on a commercial flight to Bermuda. The plane is hijacked by a Nazi and San Quinto's Ex-General Cordobas who shoot pilot Pink and damage the landing gear of the plane.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-11-05
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The Third Sex
Overview: Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and electronic music. His family begins to learn of his other life and do everything they can to set him straight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-29
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Die wilden Fünfziger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-23
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Emil of Lonneberga
Overview: Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired head. Always with the best intentions in mind, because he is a good-hearted child, but often with catastrophic results, especially for his short-tempered father. As a result, Emil spends a lot of quality time in the wood shed carving wood figurines and waiting for Anton's temper to cool down. And the father's patience is certainly tried, as Emil gets his head stuck in the family's only soup bowl, hoists little Ida up the flag pole, and arranges a lavish Christmas party for the poor.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-12-04
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Johannisnacht
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-10-29
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Die Frühreifen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-10-17
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Das Hirtenlied vom Kaisertal
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-12-25
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La moglie giapponese
Overview: The accountant Taddei, an employee of an import company, travels to Tokyo for work and discovers that the colleague he has replaced has married a Japanese woman. His journey to the Far East brings him into contact with situations of extreme poverty that will deeply disturb him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-06-24
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Der unsterbliche Lump
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-12-18
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Prisoners of Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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Frau Jenny Treibel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Die Toteninsel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-08-22
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Rotation
Overview: The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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Das Haus auf dem Hügel
Overview: Interpol detective Wilton, known for his powers of deduction, is set on a gang of bank and jewel robbers who are up to mischief in Marseille. Despite some false leads, he can shed light on the murky affair. A conventional but relatively exciting crime film that strives for atmospheric density but is not immune to the clichés of the genre. Charpentier's trivial novel is the first crime thriller in a series that pretends to be the publication of Commissioner Wilton's diaries.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-10-01
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Hoheit lassen bitten
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-13
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Nocturno im Grand Hotel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Furlough on Word of Honor
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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2 x Adam, 1 x Eva
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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The Kaiser's Lackey
Overview: Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-08-31
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For Love and Others
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-08-13
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Ein Herz braucht Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-03-18
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Wochentags immer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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Spanische Legende
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-11-26
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Am Galgen hängt die Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-20
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Die große Reise
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Overview: For the corpulent nobleman Sir John Falstaff, the inn in the small English town of Windsor is the best of all places. Here he can indulge in excessive dining and intemperate drinking, as well as swagger and boast about his adventures, particularly those of an amorous nature. At present, he has designs on the two young women, Mistress Reich and Fluth, who, in turn, lead the paunchy protagonist mightily by the nose.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-10-22
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A Life for Do
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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Gott schützt die Liebenden
Overview: Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-10-04
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Die Mühle von Sanssouci
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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Pippi Goes on Board
Overview: Pippi Longstocking lives alone in Villekulla because her mother is an angel in heaven and her father is a pirate king in the Southern Seas. She befriends her next door neighbors, siblings Tommy and Annika, who are swept into Pippi's wild adventures.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-10-31
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Glorious Times in the Spessart
Overview: The countess is married, and the ghosts are still in the Spessart. Her husband becomes an astronaut and the story involved time travelling and space travelling starts.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Stadtpark
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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Hochspannung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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Christina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-10-08
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Die Geburtstagsfeier
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-11
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The Sweet Pussycats
Overview: An officer and a count who live in opposite ends of the same castle bet each other who will be the first to bed their respective new 'virgin' maid. The winner will get ownership of the castle. In order to attain his goal, the officer ignores his lusty fiancee but she soon finds a luitenant to turn her attention to. Eventually a whole stable of local prostitutes gets in on the act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-01-31
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Der Zarewitsch
Overview: Lehar romantic operetta set in Russia about a beautiful dancer who is set up to attract a tsar's son, and they fall in love. Beautiful settings and wonderful music.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-04-25
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Your Life Guards
Overview: In a fantasy European principality, the headstrong and beautiful Princess Ingrid falls in love with a handsome officer, but dismisses him in a fit of temperamental overreaction when she learns of an alleged liaison.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-20
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Unterm Birnbaum
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-08-11
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Liebeshändel in Chioggia
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-01-10
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Mitternacht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-24
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Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
Overview: The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is a row with the new engineer Michel the evening after the first trip. He leaves - out of jealousy. Instead of him, Marianne takes three funny musicians with her who are looking for work. The trip to Hamburg on the Elbe initially ends on a sandbank, from which another barge, the "Petrel", frees them. Michel has now been hired there. After a few complications and pointless fights, because Marianne has long been in love with Michel, there is the well-deserved happy ending.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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Liebesgeschichten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-03-03
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Undine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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Not Reconciled
Overview: A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll’s story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, blocks, breaks and sudden turns, as the life story of a German family, covering numerous generations, is propelled forward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-07-04
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The Gambler
Overview: In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been almost ruined by his addiction. The only money the General has is provided by the Marquis de Grieux, an adventurer who intends to marry Zagorianski’s sister, Pauline. In doing so, de Grieux hopes to profit from the vast inheritance that will come the General’s way from his Aunt Antonina, who is presently very ill. Alexei is appalled by this society which lives only for money. He loves Pauline and wants to take her to a healthier place, but when she refuses to marry him, he begins to gamble at the casino…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-26
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Overview: A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-24
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Pippi's Christmas
Overview: Pippi prepares for Christmas. She bakes a huge number of gingerbread biscuits. In the big tree outside her house she has hung lots of Christmas presents. At Christmas Eve she sits at her window, looking out in the darkness at all the presents hanging in the tree. She feels lonely and thinks with sadness about having no one to give the presents to.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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