Vaterland: A Hunting Logbook
Aug 19 2004
•2h 41m
•Thriller
Returning to their ancestral lands, descendants of a formerly aristocratic family hunt for mythical creatures that occupy the nearby wilderness.
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František Řehák
Willmer
Karel Roden
Richard Czadsky
Petr Forman
Karel
Vasil Fridrich
Max
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