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About Endlessness
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Title: About Endlessness

Release Date: 15 Nov 2019

Runtime: 1h 18m

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Comedy

Director: Roy Andersson Filmproduktion, 4½, Essential Filmproduktion, Société Parisienne de Production, ARTE France Cinéma

Production Companies: Roy Andersson Filmproduktion, 4½, Essential Filmproduktion, Société Parisienne de Production, ARTE France Cinéma

Overview: A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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Average Vote: 6.516 (182 votes)

Cast

  • Man at the Stairs: Jan-Eje Ferling
  • Marketing director: Kristina Ekmark
  • Priest: Martin Serner
  • Psychiatrist: Bengt Bergius
  • Secretary: Anja Broms
  • Adolf Hitler: Magnus Wallgren
  • Champagne-lover: Lisa Blohm
  • Flying Woman: Tatiana Delaunay
  • Flying Man: Anders Hellström
  • Dentist: Thore Flygel
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