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Cast

Robert Powell, Brigitte Fossey, Olivia Leigh, Rüdiger Vogler, Hannelore Elsner, Daniel Olbrychski, Isolde Barth, Jiri Menzel, Le

Team

Director
Krzysztof Zanussi

Script
Tankred Dorst

Director of Photography
Slawomir Idziak

Editor
Marek Denys

Sound
Peter Kellerhals

Production Designer
Rainer Thönnes

Producer
Regina Ziegler

TV Editor
Georg Alexander

Info

Broadcaster
WDR

Genre
TV-Movie

Length
90 min.

The long conversation with the bird

1991

Fourteen- year-old Laura has fallen desperately in love with John Barth, the English actor. Barth, bored by both his private and professional life, is amused and flattered by this notion and so despite a 26-year age gap, invites young laura to join him on his trip to Thailand. Against her better judgment; Elizabeth, Laura's mother, allows Laura to accompany Barth on his excursion, with the stipulation that she too will travel to Thailand with them. In this wild setting, relationships sour. Elisabeth, who is not getting along with her daughter, finds herself attracted to Barth, while Laura tells Barth that she wants to become his lover. He resists this proposition because of her age. The next day Laura vanishes amid a web of suspicion.
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