An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Casts Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Fion Mutert, Ursina Lardi, Burghart Klaußner, Steffi Kühnert, Maria Dragus, Josef Bierbichler
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