What?
β 5.1 Β· 2022 Β· 100m Β· Comedy
WHAT? is a black and white, silent (and signing) comedy about a struggling deaf actor, sick of agreeing to increasingly humiliating tasks just to get a role, who decides to take matters into his own hands.
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