"Four comical short stories, full of black humor"31 August 1986Comedy75 mins
Based on the many observations made during his extremely interesting and far from dull life, Dr. Döblinger relates four episodes in which he wants to give us a picture of the loneliness and incomprehensibility of mankind.
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