Pont Neuf

Pont Neuf

1997 · 100 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama, History

A young Croatian painter Josip Račić in the solitude of a Parisian attic encounters unusual people and falls in love with a cabaret singer. The ambience of the cheap Parisian hotel mixes in the painter's mind with memories of his childhood and youth in the Slavonian plain, all these things finding their expression in his paintings that start to attract the attention of experts...

Directed by Željko Senečić · Written by Maja Gregl

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