LOLA
★ 6.5 · 2023 · 79m · Drama · Science Fiction · War
Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.
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