A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Oct 24 2014
•2h 40m
•Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
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Holger Andersson
Jonathan
Nisse Vestblom
Sam
Viktor Gyllenberg
Le Roi Charles XII
Lotti Törnros
Le Professeur de Flamenco
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