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Nothing Bad Can Happen

2013 · 108 min

A quietly harrowing descent into cruelty, watching unwavering faith meet escalating abuse with almost unbearable patience and dread.

Overview
Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement, falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • faith
  • trauma
  • isolation
  • violence
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • suburbs
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror7
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, horror, crime
Directed by
Katrin Gebbe
Written by
Katrin Gebbe
Starring
Julius Feldmeier, Sascha Alexander Geršak, Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Annika Kuhl, Daniel Michel, Uwe Dag Berlin, Christoph Jacobi, Til-Niklas Theinert
Music
Johannes Lehniger, Peter Folk
Cinematography
Moritz Schultheiß
Runtime
108 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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