Name: Ei
Genre: Drama
Released: 1989-04-05
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Johan Leysen, Marijke Veugelers, Coby Timp

Well, it might not be at all a love story. It's really a story about a baker in a small village unable to read or write, who is convinced by his friends to respond to a personal add in a magazine in order to meet a woman and to marry her. It's best than the plot suggests and it has a good direction. The interest remains in the baker's character and the enigma of what their friend are really writing in the letters. It's only 58 minutes long, so it's also an easy to see movie.

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An unlikely romance blossoms between an introspective, illiterate baker and a woman he met through dating ads.

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