The World Is Ours | |
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Directed by | Martin Frič |
Written by | Martin Frič George Voskovec Jan Werich |
Produced by | Josef Stein |
Starring | Jiří Voskovec |
Cinematography | Otto Heller |
Edited by | Jan Kohout |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | Czechoslovakia |
Language | Czech |
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