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When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam

When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam
Release date: 1966-01-01
Rating: 4.6
Votes: 7
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was cancelled in 1965/66 due to the film's political content. Only in 1989/90 could the director reconstruct the film, where missing sounds and images are replaced with script inserts.

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