The Dancer

Year: 1989

Runtime: 123 mins

Language: German

Director: Masahiro Shinoda

Drama

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with a German ballet dancer.

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