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20 Sep 1991
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The Fisher King
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Alexander is a talk show host on TV and a partying bachelor privately with an awful love life even though he dreams of settling down. One day his old friend Ralf brings him a manuscript for a book that he can't get published and asks Alexander to put his name on it for some more publicity. Alexander agrees without reading and finds himself in trouble when the book comes out and the views expressed in it are opposite to his own.
Alexander Engberg
Åsa, journalist
Ralf Nyström
Therapist
Publisher
Single mother
Gaby
Girl without brother in New York
Therapist's son
Copy editor
TV show host
Camilla
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