Countess Dora

Countess Dora

1993 · 117 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, Romance, History

In the early 1920s, filmmaker and cabaret director Karlo Armano meets a mysterious woman who only calls herself Dora. After a night of passionate romance, he wakes up to find her missing and goes on a quest to find her, soon realizing that the woman he had fallen in love with is none other than famed composer and autonomist Dora Pejačević.

Directed by Zvonimir Berković · Written by Zvonimir Berković

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