Ich habe die angenehme Aufgabe...

Ich habe die angenehme Aufgabe...

Ich habe die angenehme Aufgabe...

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Ich habe die angenehme Aufgabe...

1993

0h 35m

9.0(1 votes)

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Emil is an elderly circus director. His pleasant and all-too-frequent duty is to greet people from every village in the land. Again and again the tired old fighter refuses to stop and wonder whether it is worthwhile - though this is the question foremost in his mind.

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