The Invention of Love

Sep 28, 2013

1h 43m

★ 2.4

Overview

A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Coin Film

Red Lion

WDR

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Cast

Emily Schenk

Maria Kwiatkowsky

Amine von Kirsch / Claudia

Sunnyi Melles

Daniel Strübel / Ulf

Bastian Trost

Tina

Marie Rosa Tietjen

Ada

Mira Partecke

Hermann von Kirsch

Mario Adorf

Johanna von Kirsch

Irm Hermann

Heinrich Ludowsky

Samuel Finzi

Author

Sebastian Weber

Norbert

Jürgen Rißmann

Kaspar Schellenberg

Tom Leick

Falk

Tilman Strauss

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