

2020: A Very Particular Year
2020-12-08 · 90 min · ★ 7.0
At the beginning of the year 2020, a relentless plague sweeps the planet and, as a consequence, a global lockdown is gradually decreed: how did people from very different latitudes, living necessarily very different situations, experience this shared solitude? How did people adapt to the restriction by decree of their personal freedoms and the transformation of many bustling metropolises into ghost cities?
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- Cristina Trebbi, Jobst Knigge
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- ZDF, ARTE, Spiegel TV
- Countries
- Germany
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- Released
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