Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything
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Directed by Emily Atef | 129 mins | 2023
The golden hot summer after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 provides the backdrop for Emily Atef’s fraught and steamy May-December romance, adapted from a 2011 novel by Daniela Krien. On a farm in former East Germany, 19-year-old Maria drifts apart from her boyfriend, finding herself enamored instead with the gruff but enigmatic proprietor of the neighboring property, a man more than twice her age.
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