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Stranger on My Couch

May 28, 2017
0h 53m
★ 0.0

Overview

Warsaw is becoming a meeting place for people from different corners of the world, of different ages, with different life stories. What they have in common is a feeling of being lost and a dire need to run away from their solitude. The film shows an image of a contemporary city from couchsurfers’ perspective.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Studio Munka
Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich

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