The Severed Heads
Mar 31 1957
•0h 21m
•Fantasy, Comedy
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
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Raymond Devos
Denise Brossot
Rolande Polya
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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