Pierrot Lunaire

Pierrot Lunaire

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Pierrot Lunaire

1988

0h 35m

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Overview

A series of short vignettes set in a Berlin Mietskaserne (rental barracks for the poor), framed by Schönberg's atonal piece Pierrot Lunaire.

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Adriaan Adriaanse

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Marian Batavier

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Loraine Miller

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José Teunissen

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Annejet van der Zijl

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