The Left-Handed Woman

The Left-Handed Woman (German: Die linkshändige Frau) is a 1978 German drama film directed by Peter Handke. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • May 26, 1978

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  • 119 min (71.4 hs )

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Peter Handke

Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942, in Griffen, Austria) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. Handke and his mother (a Carinthian Slovene whose suicide in 1971 is the subject of Handke's A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, a reflection on her life) lived in East Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before...

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  • 119 min (71.4 hs )

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