Greta Garbo: Leave Me Alone

January. 01,0001

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

History Documentary

Keywords：

Loneliness Isolation Mental Health

Trailer Synopsis Cast

An urgent, timely and compelling portrait of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, whose fame, isolation and loneliness still captures us.

Greta Garbo as Self (archive footage)

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