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The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Comedy · Adventure
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1.1K votes
Life is just passing by...
Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.
Recommendations based on this film
Reno
February 14, 2017
**What do you think is worth living for?** I had tough time to figure it out what was the thing on the poster. Seeing it upside down, with mirror, name it, I used all the tricks I know, but nothing had worked. On the other hand, I thought it might be a fantasy film with a King Kong like creature. That's the curiosity it created, people to a have different opinions and forget to expect from the film. But it was a simp…
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CinemaSerf
August 1, 2024
Hmmm. I think it may be a testament to the skill of Peter Simonischek here that I didn't like this film very much, but in any case - I didn't. His daughter "Ines" (Sandra Hüller) had made a decent life for herself in the corporate world and the two have become largely estranged. He decides to try and rectify this by travelling to Bucharest where she is working with boss/lover "Gerald" (Thomas Loibl). He fancies himse…
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