The Ode to Joy
Release date: 2006-06-17
Votes: 2
Genres: Drama, History, War, Music
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, in Japan.
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