Gloria Mundi

Gloria Mundi

He Dreamed to Make the Ultimate Movie

1976 · 130 min · ★ 4.4 · Drama

An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.

Directed by Nikos Papatakis · Written by Nikos Papatakis

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