In the City of Sylvia
Sep 14 2007
•1h 22m
•Drama, Romance
A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier.
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Pilar López de Ayala
She
Xavier Lafitte
He
Michaël Balerdi
Laurence Cordier
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