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Tom Sawyer
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Tom Sawyer

2011-11-17 · 109 min · ★ 6.0

Adventure · Family

Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly with Tom and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi river.

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Directors
Hermine Huntgeburth
Production companies
Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion, Majestic Film, NDR, BR, Hi Film Productions, ARTE, Fox International Productions Germany, ARD Degeto, Filmaufbau Leipzig
Countries
France, Germany, Romania
Status
Released
Budget
USD 8,500,000
Revenue
USD 2,963,639

Top Cast

Louis HofmannLouis HofmannTom Sawyer
Heike MakatschHeike MakatschTante Polly
Benno FürmannBenno FürmannIndianer Joe
Joachim KrólJoachim KrólMuff Potter
Peter LohmeyerPeter LohmeyerRichter Thatcher
Hinnerk SchönemannHinnerk SchönemannSheriff
Sylvester GrothSylvester GrothDoc Robinson
Leon SeidelLeon SeidelHuckleberry Finn
Holger HandtkeHolger HandtkeStaatsanwalt
Andreas WarmbrunnAndreas WarmbrunnSid

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