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Three Comrades
UNITED STATES · 1938

Three Comrades

Frank Borzage
post-war disillusionment doomed romance male friendship tuberculosis and illness Weimar Germany
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Synopsis

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.

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