Short film

Non-lieu

1968 · 24 min

A short, disorienting plunge into one haunted man's guilt, where memory and nightmare blur until you can't tell what's real.

Overview: Doctor Hortobagy is a lonely, used old man, haunted by his memories... The German occupation, the Jews, a denunciation... He feels tracked, but is he really? A night where dream and reality, past and present, will merge, events are unfolding quickly.
How it feels: Eerie, melancholic, dark and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Guilt, memory, isolation, war
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
memory
isolation
war
death
Places: home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Genres: drama, fantasy, history
Directed by: Michel Stameschkine
Written by: Michel Stameschkine, Thomas Owen
Starring: Georges Randax, Lucien Salkin, Georges Bossair, Piroshka Muharay, Olga, Maurice Béjart
Cinematography: Emmanuel Bonmariage
Runtime: 24 min
Country: Belgium
Languages: French