Top Cast
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Carla Juri
Paula
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Albrecht Schuch
Otto Modersohn
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Roxane Duran
Clara Westhoff
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Joel Basman
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Stanley Weber
George
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Nicki von Tempelhoff
Fritz Mackensen
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Jonas Leonhardi
Heinrich Vogeler
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Nadja Zwanziger
Schwangere Hilke
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Klara Deutschmann
Martha Vogeler
Overview
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
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