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The Tragedy of a Simple Man

2013

A grim, disorienting descent into a broken mind, suffocating in its poverty and quiet cruelty.

Directed by: Nuran Calis
Genres: Drama, Tv movie
Starring: Tom Schilling, Nora Waldstätten, Simon Kirsch

Overview: Woyzeck takes psychotropic drugs and punishes himself physically. He has no choice. It's his living. With what he earns selling his body and by working in a restaurant and in subway tunnels, he just about makes ends meet. Coming home to his wife Marie and his infant child, he’s an impotent wreck -- and definitely unable to afford the earrings he sees Marie wearing one day. She’s frustrated and the jewelry is a gift from the local pimp. Woyzeck wasn't supposed to find out. But he has. Plagued by voices, he loses his already weak grip on reality. He retreats into the tunnels with Marie and the baby. There Woyzeck is the master of life and death.

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Directed by: Nuran Calis
Genres: Drama, Tv movie
Starring: Tom Schilling, Nora Waldstätten, Simon Kirsch

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 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: madness
politics
class
betrayal
violence
Places: big city
workplace
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	9
Complexity	6
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Genres: drama, tv movie
Directed by: Nuran Calis
Written by: Georg Büchner, Nuran Calis
Starring: Tom Schilling, Nora Waldstätten, Simon Kirsch, Julischka Eichel, Christoph Franken, Markus Tomczyk, Gunnar Teuber, Georgios Tsivanoglou
Cinematography: Björn Knechtel
Country: Germany
Languages: German

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