

Wilma or The Ghosts of Freedom
2025-07-31 · Runtime unavailable · ★ 6.3
Wilma has many qualifications and talents, yet suffers just as many disappointments in life. After she catches her husband cheating, she runs away to Vienna in search of a new life. There she lives with bustling bohemians, tries her luck at a variety of jobs and perhaps... at love again.
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- Maren-Kea Freese
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- ma.ja.de. Fiction
- Countries
- Germany
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- Released
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Fritzi HaberlandtWilma
Thomas GerberAlex
Stephan GrossmannMartin
Valentin PostlmayrAnatol
Simon SteinhorstMax
Xenia SnagowskiDoris
Werner LustigGünni
Johannes AhnWu
Christoph FrankenChef
Isabel SchosnigRosi
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