The Lost Weekend1945
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Director
Screenplay
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Actors
Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, James Conaty, Douglas Spencer, Emmett Vogan
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 101 Minutes
Genres
FSK
12
About the film
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
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