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Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus

1975 · 1 season

A grim, picaresque trudge through wartime chaos, mixing crude humour with sudden cruelty and a naive hero's slow disillusionment.

Created by
Fritz Umgelter
Genres
Action & adventure
Starring
Matthias Habich, Christian Quadflieg, Herbert Tiede
Overview
The boy Simplizissimus grows up with simple farmers in the Spessart region. But the idyll is abruptly destroyed by the Thirty Years' War. Simplizissimus is sent to the besieged fortress of Hanau. When the lansquenets there play crude jokes on him, he flees with his friend Herzbruder to the Croats. But even here he does not fare much better.

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Created by
Fritz Umgelter
Genres
Action & adventure
Starring
Matthias Habich, Christian Quadflieg, Herbert Tiede
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • survival
  • violence
  • corruption
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • countryside
  • military
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror3
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
action & adventure
Created by
Fritz Umgelter
Written by
Leopold Ahlsen
Starring
Matthias Habich, Christian Quadflieg, Herbert Tiede, Michel Vitold, Nina Popelíková, Jacques Alric, Franz Stoß, Stanislava Bartošová
Length
1 seasons, 4 episodes, 90 min each
Network
ZDF
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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