A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Nan
1h 40m
2014
6.837 /10 (484)

Overview

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

Country : France, Germany, Norway, Sweden
Languages : svenska, English
Released Date: 2014-10-24

Top Billed Cast

Holger Andersson

Jonathan

Nisse Vestblom

Sam

Viktor Gyllenberg

Le Roi Charles XII

Lotti Törnros

Le Professeur de Flamenco

Jonas Gerholm

Le Colonel Solitaire

Ola Stensson

Le Capitaine/Barbier

Oscar Salomonsson

Le Danseur

Roger Olsen Likvern

Le Gardien

Charlotta Larsson

Lotta la Boiteuse

Göran Holm

Bargäst

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