01 January, 1956
A priest is caught by a dog.
Fred Fischer
Fred Fischer was born in 1905 in Grinzing near Vienna in Austria. In the 1920s he had been an assistant of the German cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan, before moving to Amsterdam....
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