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Child's Play

1993 · 111 min

A quiet, painful watch that sits with a child's fear and confusion, building dread without melodrama.

Directed by
Wolfgang Becker
Genres
Drama, Tv movie
Starring
Jonas Kipp, Oliver Bröcker, Burghart Klaußner
Overview
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...

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Directed by
Wolfgang Becker
Genres
Drama, Tv movie
Starring
Jonas Kipp, Oliver Bröcker, Burghart Klaußner
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • trauma
  • isolation
  • violence
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, tv movie
Directed by
Wolfgang Becker
Written by
Horst Sczerba, Wolfgang Becker
Starring
Jonas Kipp, Oliver Bröcker, Burghart Klaußner, Angelika Bartsch, Matthias Friedrich, Hildegard Wensch, Irina Lackmann, Rüdiger Joswig
Cinematography
Martin Kukula
Runtime
111 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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