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Zwischen den Zeiten

2014 · 113 min

A quiet, brooding romance tangled with old surveillance secrets, where rediscovered love feels haunted and everyone's motives stay uneasy.

Directed by
Hansjörg Thurn
Genres
Drama
Starring
Sophie von Kessel, Benjamin Sadler, Marcus Mittermeier
Overview
On a class trip to the GDR in 1986, Annette flirted with the East German Michael. Today she is working on reconstructing shredded Stasi files and comes across a photo of him. Annette finds Michael and their love flares up again. Not just out of jealousy, Annette's boyfriend Johannes investigates whether her rival was a Stasi victim or possibly a perpetrator...

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Directed by
Hansjörg Thurn
Genres
Drama
Starring
Sophie von Kessel, Benjamin Sadler, Marcus Mittermeier
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • memory
  • betrayal
  • obsession
  • politics
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
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Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance6
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
Sarah Schnier, Carl-Christian Demke
Starring
Sophie von Kessel, Benjamin Sadler, Marcus Mittermeier, Bernhard Schütz, Katharina Thalbach, Jürgen Schornagel, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Amelie Plaas-Link
Cinematography
Peter Krause
Runtime
113 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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