Special Delivery (1955)
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Directors
John Brahm
Cast
Eva Bartok, Gert Fröbe, Joseph Cotten, René Deltgen
The story
Somewhere behind the Iron Curtain, mid 1950s. John Adams is a US embassy chargé d'affaires in a communist country in Eastern Europe. One day he has to deal with a very special case: in the front yard of the embassy, a baby has been laid down, as if it had "fallen from heaven"!
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comedy film, drama film
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