Dog Days (2001)
Genre : Drama, Comedy
Runtime : 2H 1M
Director : Ulrich Seidl
Writer : Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Synopsis
In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife died long before on the search for some sexual entertainment live their lives while their lifelines cross from time to time.
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