The Donald Duck Principle

Are the comics about the drake Donald Duck just for kids? Certainly not!

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2014 / 90min.

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Documentary

Synopsis

The documentary tells why Donald Duck hit Europe like a bomb after the Second World War, creates a loving psychogram of the drake who’d love to be successful and eventually examines the question how our on self-optimization focused society deals with failure.

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