So Pretty

2019

1h 23m

4.9(9 votes)

Drama

Overview

Four young queers in New York City struggle to maintain their proto-utopian community against the outside world as their lives curiously merge with the 1980s German novel "So schön" by Ronald M. Schernikau.

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6 members

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Edem Dela-Seshie

Paul

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Thomas Love

Franz

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Rachika S

Erika

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Jessica Dunn Rovinelli

Tonia

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Phoebe DeGroot

Helmut

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Arlene Gregoire

Gera

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