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Lava

1989 · 129 min

A slow, haunted drift through ritual and memory, like watching ghosts rehearse a nation's grief in candlelight.

Directed by: Tadeusz Konwicki
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Gustaw Holoubek, Jolanta Piętek-Górecka, Artur Żmijewski

Tagline: Our nation - like lava, hard and nasty, dry and cold above, but there's an inner fire which keeps it's heat for centuries...
Overview: On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

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Directed by: Tadeusz Konwicki
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Gustaw Holoubek, Jolanta Piętek-Górecka, Artur Żmijewski

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 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: memory
faith
identity
death
isolation
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	7
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, history
Directed by: Tadeusz Konwicki
Written by: Tadeusz Konwicki
Starring: Gustaw Holoubek, Jolanta Piętek-Górecka, Artur Żmijewski, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska, Maja Komorowska, Grażyna Szapołowska, Henryk Bista, Piotr Fronczewski
Cinematography: Piotr Sobociński
Runtime: 129 min
Country: Poland
Languages: Polish

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