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Twice Lived

1912 · 25 min

An old, solemn melodrama that drifts like a bad dream, leaving a quiet ache of loss and strange fate.

Directed by
Max Mack
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ernst Rückert, Eva Speyer
Overview
A mother is so shocked by her daughter's almost being overrun by a car that she needs internment in a sanatorium. The doctor, in love with her, takes advantage of her amnesic cataleptic state to make believe she has died and take her away from her family. Destiny, though, will make them meet again.

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Directed by
Max Mack
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ernst Rückert, Eva Speyer
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 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
  • grief
  • identity
  • obsession
  • family
  • memory
Places
  • hospital
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour0
Realism7
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Max Mack
Written by
Heinrich Lautensack
Starring
Ernst Rückert, Eva Speyer
Runtime
25 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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