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The Coffee House

1970 · 105 min

A talky, stagebound chamber piece where polite conversation slowly curdles into quiet cruelty and social unease.

Overview
People meet and chat at Ridolfo's Coffeehouse; the conversations are mostly about money, but also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity and respectability.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 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
  • class
  • love
  • friendship
  • betrayal
  • morality
Places
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour3
Realism6
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
tv movie, drama
Directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Written by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring
Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab, Harry Baer, Peer Raben, Günther Kaufmann, Hans Hirschmüller
Music
Peer Raben
Cinematography
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Runtime
105 min
Country
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Languages
German

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