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The pianist Kyra Steckeweh and the filmmaker Tim van Beveren search for traces where Countess Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) lived and worked. Their documentary is a journey through time to a half brilliant, half broken Europe.
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Käthe Leisegang, Yoko Bustamente, Andris Nelsons, Beatrix Borchard, Koraljka Kos, Andrej Bielow, Tobias Niederschlag, Jutta Heise
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