Shy People (1987)
Women from separate worlds bound by a secret that will haunt them forever.
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 58M
Director : Andrei Konchalovsky
Writer : Andrei Konchalovsky, Gérard Brach, Marjorie David
Synopsis
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