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Hole
18+
Director: Matija Solce Puppet show Stepping through a hole in a seemingly ordinary home makes us enter a world where the areal and the surreal interlace. One can see a dormouse on a string, or a finger baking biscuits with genuine flour and eggs. Both the animators and performers take us, as Alice would, into a fairytale world beyond the visible into a tunnel where the subconscious and the forgotten realm of childhood both dwell. In Slovene.
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Without
Theatre show
12+
Without is a criminally intense, romantically dreamy and honestly alive performance about the search for the right path in chaotic present.
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Svetlana Makarovi!
Darnmousie
Puppet show
Length 45 min
One day a little grey mouse came face to face with a cat, which was so surprised that it exclaimed darnthemouses tail And so Darnmousie got her name. And then its her birthday, and her auntie Bittie gives her three wonderful walnuts. Then her unfortunate toof breaks and she has to visit Woodpecker, the dentist, despite the kind help of a squirrel and Wibbit the frog.
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Animal Farm
Director: Vito Taufer Puppet show
12+
Is a positive utopia possible at all? What is it that we are to offer to our youth as an alternative, if just any system can degenerate into its own version of totalitarianism? Should we offer them a ready made system or is it better to impart values to them and just keep warning them of the possible mistakes?
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Anja "tefan
Length 30 min
Barley lives near the lake. He plays on its shores every day. He floats his tiny boats on the lake and wishes to have a real boat ...
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Lutz Hbner
Length 75 min
12+
A Boxer's Heart
Director: Samo M. Strelec Theatre show
Is communication between an old, once legendary boxer, now sitting idly in his room in a retirement home, and a young boy, full of life, impatient, arrogant, a typical representative of todays youth living on junk food and computer games, possible?
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Josip Ribi!i!
Length 60 min
4+
Every night Black Cat woos White Kitty, on a guitar he strums his ditty. In the songs the cat in love promises White Kitty many things, but his romantic serenades all have a bitter-sweet ending until White Kitty starts taking care of Black Cat, and starts listening to his song despite the fact that meow, the Cat cant bow
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Doctor Faustus
Director: Jelena Sitar Puppet show
12+
Faustus was born in 1938(!) in Milan Klemen!i!s theatre, and Mr Klemen!i!s family and some friends gave him life in the theatre. !In 1982 Jelena Sitar and Igor Cvetko revived the performance at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre for the very first time, adapting it a little bit in the process.
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Length 60 min
6+
Somewhere or everywhere there is a city, where time seems at the beginning or at the end. The citizens wish for peace and harmony, but they dont know what that is. In constant conflicts and noise created by life, theyve lost what connects them the basic Tone.
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The Stones
Theatre show
12+
The Stones is a dramatisation of a real story of two boys, who threw stones from the bridge over a motorway, and as a result killed a driver. It is written as a play for two actors, who act in the roles of the two boys, and the two detectives respectively.
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Length 35 min
The story was written by Fran Levstik, and we know it just as well as his story about Martin Krpan. They are both quite old. But in the words of Hans Christian Andersen: Stories are like many people they grow better with age.
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Lalanit
3+
Director: Iuna Ornik Puppet show The story of a giant turnip is basically the story of the beginning of world. Who pulled out the giant turnip, which is a planet? The mice grabbed the hens, the hens grabbed the geese, the geese grabbed the sheep, the sheep grabbed the cow, the cow grabbed Grandma, grandma grabbed Grandpa, Grandpa grabbed the turnip, and they pulled and pulled and pulled, and finally pulled it out - BIG BANG. Then they all fell down, rolling around, laughing, laughing, laughing
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15+
This time Bchners comedy Leonce and Lena, which was written in 1836 and keeps agitating us as a satirical critique of society, is staged as editing of the adolescents modern life scenes, citing the elements of street art, and playing with the allusions to commercials, video spots, music hits, stars, in short, the allusions to all that the young people are bombarded with nowadays.
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Duda Paiva
Length 60 min
16+
Love Dolls
Puppet show
Boris A. Novak
Length 50 min
Like any other child, Little Luna yearns to grow up as soon as possible. She falls in love with the Sun, and envies his size and the power of his light. But when she grows up to be the full moon, Big Luna realises that with being grown up come responsibilities. The Sun explains that he has to produce light each and every day of his life, from sunrise to sunset, to create and sustain life in space. Once Big Luna gets a bitter taste of adulthood, she begins longing for careless childhood play, and she begins to grow smaller once more.
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Length 30 min
While sifting flour, mixing dough and baking bread, a shadow fairytale of love, friendship and otherness comes to life Mousie Mouse and Whitemouse fairytale. It was inspired by a picture book with the same title, written by Feri Lain%!ek, a Slovene writer, poet and dramatist.
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Forbidden Loves
Director: Silvan Omerzu Puppet show
16+
Length 50 min
Throughout the show one can easily recognise the tragic destinies of famous protagonists of Greek mythology: Dedalus, the inventor whose son, Icarus, flies too close to the sun; Pygmalion, the sculptor, who is in love with his creation; Queen Parsiphea, who makes love with the divine bull, conceives and gives birth to Minotaur; and Narcissus who is in love with his own reflection.
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Dragica Poto!njak
Real Bad
Theatre show
8+
Length 50 min
Its really bad if you are eleven years old, it is even worse if you are a girl and your parents are divorced, and you want to live with your mother, but you have to live with your father and his new wife and their annoying kid, even though he is your brother, that is half-brother.
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12+
This performance of William Shakespeares masterpiece still deals with the plot of star crossed lovers of Romeo and Juliet, you will still witness the legendary balcony scene, and there will still be dead characters galore, those who deserve death and those who deserve it a little less.
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Snow Queen
Theatre show
5+
A wicked sprite made a mirror which shows the darkest and worst sides of people. The reflection of beauty distorts into ugliness, truth becomes lie, and kindness is permeated with hatred. He sends the mirror around the world and ruins people with it, until they all seem ugly, dirty and bad to themselves and to others.
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Svetlana Makarovi!
Kosovirs Again!
Puppet show
Length 50 min
Kosovirs again! is a puppet spectacle. The first surprise awaits the audience at the very beginning, when the kosovir marionettes appear at the back of the theatre on their spoons, and then descend to the stage on their spoons, meeting different animals and creatures which surprise us with their unique appearance. /.../ Kosovirs again! surprises the audience moment and moment again. !(RA Slovenia, 1st October 2000)
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Tamara Matevc
OD
12+
Director: Marko &eh Theatre show This is a story of drugs. This is a story of addictions. This is a story of life.
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Matija Solce
Length 50 min
This well known folk tale of the musicians of Bremen gave Matija Solce, an established puppet artist, foundation for a vivacious and friendly performance, which combines puppets and music. As they do in the fairy-tale, the four animals make a journey, and they surprise the town folk with their music.
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Maja Kun%i!
Length 35 min
Director: Maja Kun%i! Puppet show The performance All Different, All Strange is a somewhat different theatrical, puppet and musical story with a hint of burlesque about friendship for the youngest.
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Sonja Kononenko
Tick Tock
Puppet show
1+
This show talks about childs play and the time lost during playing, about creativity of the moment and experiencing the magic of the moment when we are lost into the time of playfulness and creativity.
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Sonja Kononenko
Kulturnica LGL
1+
Little Dragon
Puppet show
Length 30 min
A dragon is a big and mighty beast, but only when it grows up. First it is small, just like every other baby in the world, and it causes Sonja the same problems as other babies cause their mothers.
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Svetlana Makarovi!
Length 35 min
3+
Raspberry Fairy
Puppet show
Raspberry Fairy, as she is in the performance, where all woodland creatures fight for a primate and ownership of a ripe fruit, is almost ethereal, spiritually flawless creature, who comes to peoples aid when they get too deep in trouble.
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Makalonca
Puppet show
4+
Although it was originally conceived during the Second World War by the famous Slovenian writer Fran Sale%ki Fin'gar, Makalonca is one of those fairy tales that could be easily included in the treasure trove of the Slovenian folk storytelling.
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Jan Malik
Length 45 min
At the very edge of the town there is a house, small as a cage, clean as a whistle and delicate as a flower. Granny and Granddad live in this house.
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Length 60 min
Puppet show Sleepy Star is a radio play, a picture book, a film and a puppet show. In Slovenia, this is one of those stories one cannot grow up without.
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4+
Three clowns bring a tricycle with a large box onto the stage. They stop, and the box itself is transformed into a small stage.
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Sa%a Er'en
You Catch!
Puppet show
Length 30 min
A comedy with running and singing designed for the youngest audience and directed by a versatile puppet artist Silvan Omerzu, features an artistically purified, musically inspiring, playful and dynamic work. A simple, modular stage assembly, with wooden puppets and props, unfolds before the viewers an exciting and - until the performances very ending - interesting competition between the two neighbours, who eventually become friends. Its witty text was contributed by the writer of the younger generation Sa%a Er'en, whose picture book The One about the Fleas ranked her among the five finalists for the Original Slovenian Picture Book Award.
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Igor Bojovi#
Puss in boots
Theatre show
Length 70 min
Puss in Boots discusses the issue of injustice in inheritance, proving that fortune savours the brave and not the powerful. This most famous fairy tale of the miraculous animal helper is widespread across Europe and beyond. Travelling through Siberia and India, it reached even Philippines. This time the popular fairy tale is presented in a poetic re-creation by Igor Bojovi#, a Serbian playwright, whose work was awarded many times and performances greeted with enthusiastic applause from the audiences as well. The text, translated by an experienced and cunning master of words Milan Jesih and directed by the old theatre puss in boots in human appearance Du%an Jovanovi#, will most certainly impress our viewers as well.
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Duda Paiva
Bestiaires
Combined show
Length 60 min
A Creepy and Magical Fusion of Dance and Puppets. Known for the magical fusion of contemporary dance and objecttheatre, Duda Paiva has already left a mark in Slovenia with the provocative, philosophical and humorous physical performance Love Dolls. Now he's coming back with his most recent creation, the multidisciplinary visual theatre project Bestiaires.
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Elder's Tale
Puppet show
4+
Elders Tale was inspired by the Andersens fairy-tale The Elder-Tree Mother(Hyldemoer, 1850). It tells a tale of memories and also how a fairy-tale is born from a story.
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Eugne Ionesco
Eugne Ionesco
The Lesson
Theatre show
Length 80 min
Why perform The Lesson by Eugne Ionesco today? The question seems even more absurd than the play itself a dramaturgical pearl, a work of art and one of the fundamental theatrical texts of the 20th century. Nevertheless, let us take this question seriously.
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Matija Solce
The aim of the dramatized poetry by Sre!ko Kosovel is to encourage the viewers to indulge in wonder as well as to soften, cheer up and rock themselves into the simple rhythms of his verses. This poetic and puppet collage takes its viewers to the world of sensory, musical and imaginative theatre.
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The Gruffalo
Director: Jaka Ivanc Puppet show
3+
PUPPET MUSICAL. The Mouse heads for the woods to find a hazelnut. There the predators lie in wait for him. But he knows exactly what to do. To turn them away, he makes up a story about a Gruffalo. Apparently the Gruffalo adores foxes, owl ice cream with juice and roasted snakes. And yes, his Gruffalo is so dreadful that the Mouse becomes the most important animal in the forest. But if he really wants to get his breakfast, he has to deal with the Gruffalo as well. He suddenly finds the Mouse yummy himself. No way, that wont be so easy, pal! The Gruffalo was in fact a very special creature, invented by the Mouse to frighten the other animals. And now he suddenly appears in flesh! Will the Mouse be resourceful enough to beat him as well?
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8+
The Owl Castle is one of the two fully preserved performances from the rich puppet heritage, left by Milan Klemen!i! painter, photographer, set and costume designer and - above all - father of the Slovenian puppet theatre.
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Length 30 min
Juri Muri, the one that fell from a pear tree, is a stubborn little boy who doesn't like washing. Deeply hating water, soaps and towels he one day suddenly decides to run away to Africa. A sea gull carries him across the sea, yet upon arrival to Africa he comes across dangerous and dreadful beasts.
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Secrets
5+
Director: Mateja Kole'nik Theatre show A tense story about two thirteen-year olds. The girl named Treasure runs away from her violent stepfather and apathetic mother, seeking shelter at her grandmother. The only trustworthy thing in her life is her diary. India, on the other hand, lives in a well-off family; she doesn't get on with her mother, and the father whom she used to adore, is sinking into alcoholism. She derives comfort from writing a diary, like her favourite heroine Anna Frank used to do.
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Length 70 min
The main heroes are Annaluise and Anton, the former a daughter of a rich factory director, the latter an only child of a diseased single mother. She has got too much of everything but lacks the love and attention on the part of her parents, while he grows up too quickly, having to take care financially of a diseased mother, yet his home is full of warmth and affection despite material poverty.
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Length 60 min
10+
Three unemployed musicians decided to create something nice for you out of nothing. They buried themselves into garbage and jumped into their fantasy. They will show you how to entice wonderful, interesting and different sound out of cans, water pipes, plastic bags, wrappage, children's toys, bottles and even food.
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Mishmash Bakery
Director: Robert Waltl Puppet show
Length 45 min
Baker Mishmash bakes the best bread far and wide; he is mysteriously assisted by mice, which secretly turn into people at night for a shortwhile. The gossipy neighbour Jedrt is insistent on finding out the secret of his good bread. Out of sheer envy and spiteful curiosity she reveals a big mystery to villagers. But Mishmash disappears, and so do good bread and joy.
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3+
Morrison and the Four Seasons, authorial project of an Estonian director, is a play about an adventure of a small boy; while his parents are telling him a story, his fantasy journey suddenly turns into reality. This educational and playful adventure offers a view of the world through perspective of a boy in an enchanting forest of books, in which even the four seasons assume human forms.
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Lutz Hbner
Creeps
14+
Director: Uro% Frst Theatre show Time in which media abound with reality shows and talents wars calls for new values and provokes longing for popularity in the young. The play Outspaced shows the backstage happening related to the production of a trendy television show. Three teenage girls turn up on an audition for a TV host only to be thrown into conflicting emotional state by adrenaline and ambitions.
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Length 45 min
The story of Jan!ek would be a completely ordinary story about an ordinary boy living a life of an average small boy, if it were not for the fact that he one day suddenly changes into a hedgehog. Although some find it hard to believe, life of a hedgehog is anything but simple and pleasant.
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Length 55 min
3+
Once upon a time on a small island somewhere in Japan there lived a fisherman, named Taro Urashima. While taking a walk along the sea shore he came across a group of village children torturing a turtle. He saved the animal. After a few days when he was fishing as usually, he got a visit from the saved turtle, which told him she would like to thank him by taking him to the Dragon Castle.
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Length 40 min
5+
Poetic performance inspired by the narration of Peter Svetina of the same title. Stargazer Jaromir keeps gazing into the sky in his attic room, looking for his happiness. Searching among stars, complicated mathematical formulas and astrology treatises he expects it to turn up suddenly like a comet.
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Length 65 min
4+
Little witch is a promising and roguish witch, hardly waiting to grow up and be accepted into the company of elderly witches. The annual witch dance is getting near, but being too young she is strictly forbidden to attend the event.
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Rudyard Kipling
Length 60 min
6+
The play Jungle Book presents the Indian jungle with all its living animal inhabitants. In such, seemingly alien living space for a human being, the little boy Mowgli finds himself; he is an abandoned child, accepted and raised by wolves. With the help of his animal friends, black panther Bagheera and bear Baloo, Mowgli learns animal languages and laws of the jungle.
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Oscar Wilde
Length 60 min
9+
The Fisherman and His Soul is a fairytale about beauty, passion, wisdom, wealth and love. On the other hand it is a story in which beauty, passion, wisdom, wealth and love also shine in their cruellest contrast, in their demonic image. A fisherman falls in love with a mermaid, but he can only marry her if he gets rid of his soul first, as sea creatures have no souls.
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Svetlana Makarovi!
Length 50 min
Svetlana Makarovi!
Length 50 min
4+
Kuzma who hates washing also hates everyone but goblins, and that is why he refuses to discuss health and weather with other inhabitants of the forest. Having no ear for music he nevertheless likes it, but only when he is in a really cheerful mood. Once a month, on Fridays, goblins get together and boast of their achievements.
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N. and R. Sultanov
Length 50 min
4+
The Moon on the Road is a nostalgic performance about a forgotten clown, strolling empty town streets at night. People have long ago forgotten clowns, laughter and joy. Having no work anymore the hungry clown roams around, searching for food in garbage cans. In a deserted street he suddenly comes across a faded and torn poster bringing back memories of the splendour of the circus in which he used to perform. And then the Moon rolls from behind a cloud
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The Boneheads
Director: Jaka Ivanc Theatre show
14+
Boneheads are of fine stock. Butale is a fine village. Compared to the neighbouring village Tepanje, Butale has everything and even more. It is indeed very near to complete perfection. The fire brigade of Butale is superior to everyone else. And their police is a terror.
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Sophocles
Antigone
Theatre show
Length 70 min
Sophocless Antigone - the almost two and a half centuries old play about a rebellion of a young girl against the laws of a ruler has been triggering its different interpretations and inspiring an enormous number of remakes ever since it was conceived. Smoles Antigone without Antigone captured the time of the post-war massacres and Jovanovi#s Antigone without Creon the time of the last Balkan wars.
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The Heather Lang Show by Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versa. Festival mesto 'ensk.
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Based on the motifs of the play Our Friend Pippi by Desa Muck
6+
Alice in Wonderland
6+
Alice in Wonderland
Director: Matja' Pograjc Puppet show Alice in Wonderland is a performance of playful nonsense. It is an extravagant tale about Alice, a clever ten-year-old, who deliberately and without hesitation falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world that exists only in dreams or in Wonderland. There are a lot of rather peculiar and miraculous things to be seen down there rabbits, wearing gala garments, grinning cats, queens, chopping off heads all over as well as a colourful bunch of other animal and fantastic creatures, which we are familiar with even here in Non-Wonderland. Only there everybody seems to be in unusual relationships with each other and dealing with some bizarre predicaments and nonsense, originating the thoughts on serious mathematical, logical, philosophical and physical issues. Extravaganza and deviation from the normal seem to be just everywhere.
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4+
You must have heard the famous story about the sleeping princess, who pricked her finger on a spinning wheel and fell asleep for a hundred years. But we are sure that you dont know the role of the frog, motionlessly adorning the castle garden fountain, in all of this.
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Maja Borin
Length 40 min
4+
Bugsquerade
Director: Ja%a Jamnik Theatre show
Maja Borins text titled Bugilly, my family ()u'ina, moja dru'ina) was submitted for the Golden Stick Award for best drama text for children and youth; the text did not receive an award, however, the professional jury recommended it for a production in the theatre. In underwent some changes and now it is here, on the Drama Stage for the Young, with a new title Bugsquerade.
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Herv Tullet
Kulturnica LGL
2+
Turlututu
Puppet show
Length 35 min
Turlututu! Where are you? Are you here? Here are you! It is you! You are Turlututu! Turlututu is nowhere to be found. He fell from the book and disappeared. But, how is he to be found, when he can be smaller than a flea or higher than a church tower? How is he to be looked for, if it takes him only an instant to change his colour, fly away to space or simply vanish by just uttering the right magic words? How? Quite easy, actually. Let's all be Turlututu! And, let's catch him!
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Ela Peroci
Length 40 min
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