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The Ode to Joy is a film of genre Drama directed by Masanobu Deme with Ken Matsudaira
The Ode to Joy (2006)
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Add to a movie listBaruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園) is a Japanese film released in 2006 and based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture in Japan.
Actors
Ken Matsudaira
Hiroshi Abe
(Iko)
Jun Kunimura
(Takagi)
Bruno Ganz
(Kurt Heinrich)
Kostja Ullmann
(Herman Lake)
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