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Invisible Adversaries

1977 · 109 min

A disorienting, cerebral plunge into paranoia and urban alienation, where reality and identity fray in experimental, unsettling ways.

Directed by
Valie Export
Genres
Drama, Science fiction
Overview
Set in contemporary Vienna, the film involves a photographer, Anna, who discovers that extraterrestrial beings are colonizing the minds of her fellow citizens by raising the human aggression quotient. The outer world immediately becomes disjointed, yet the inner world does too, as Anna and her lover, Peter, try to hang onto their deteriorating relationship.

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Directed by
Valie Export
Genres
Drama, Science fiction
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • obsession
  • madness
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror4
Humour3
Realism5
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, science fiction
Directed by
Valie Export
Written by
Peter Weibel, Valie Export
Starring
Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Josef Plavec, Monika Helfer-Friedrich, Helke Sander, Dominick Dusek, Herbert Schmid, Edward Neversal
Runtime
109 min
Country
Austria
Languages
German

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