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I Wish I Were a Pigeon

I Wish I Were a Pigeon

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WarDrama

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The story of German minority members who, after escaping from Wehrmacht, form a partisan unit named "Ernst Thalmann" in eastern Croatia. The focus is a family whose members fight on different sides of the barricade.

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Budget

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Status

Released

Original Language

Runtime

102 mins

Rating

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Release Date

22 February 1990

Country

Germany

Cast

Vanja Drach

Vanja Drach

Manfred Möck

Manfred Möck

Marina Marković

Marina Marković

Peter Modrick

Peter Modrick

Slobodan Negić

Slobodan Negić

Ley Lutz

Ley Lutz

Joachim Nimtz

Joachim Nimtz

Hildegard Alex

Hildegard Alex

Michael Gerber

Michael Gerber

Ljiljana Đoković

Ljiljana Đoković

Uwe Lach

Uwe Lach

Jens Knospe

Jens Knospe

Gojko Mitić

Gojko Mitić

Maren Schumacher

Maren Schumacher

Mladen Nelević

Mladen Nelević

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