Zodiak
Synopsis
Short film about slackers in Berlin.
- Directors
- Rainer Boldt, Dietmar Buchmann
- Writers
- Rainer Boldt, Dietmar Buchmann
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
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