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The Family Jewels is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Robert Schwentke with Wotan Wilke Möhring
The Family Jewels (2004)
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On diagnostique chez Martin, un fils issu d'une bonne famille, un cancer du testicule. La maladie le menace de se débarrasser de sa vie passée et ordonnée. Comme il ne veut pas risquer sa fonction érectile, il commence une chimiothérapie de trois mois. Il développe une amitié toujours plus forte entre lui et ses compagnons de chambre Nickel et Harry, également des patients atteints de cancer, ainsi que Susanne, une autre cancéreuse.Actors
Wotan Wilke Möhring
(Martin Schwarz)
Julia Hummer
(Susanne)
Alexander Beyer
(Roman Schwarz)
Marie Gruber
(Gabriele Schwarz)
Thomas Thieme
(Hans Schwarz)
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