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Cain's Children

2014 · 99 min

A somber, quietly haunting documentary that lingers on faces and memories, demanding patience as it unearths buried pain.

Directed by: Marcell Gerő
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Zsolt Barcsai, József Gábor Nagy, Pál Pásztor

Overview: Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their haunting faces and disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets and a Hungary he has never known.

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Directed by: Marcell Gerő
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Zsolt Barcsai, József Gábor Nagy, Pál Pásztor

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
memory
crime
isolation
redemption
Places: prison
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	0
Tension	5
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Marcell Gerő
Written by: Sára László, Marcell Gerő
Starring: Zsolt Barcsai, József Gábor Nagy, Pál Pásztor
Cinematography: Rudolf Péter Kiss
Runtime: 99 min
Country: France, Hungary
Languages: Hungarian

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