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Ricardo Bär

2013 · 93 min

A quiet, slippery documentary where the subject turns the camera back on its makers, leaving you unsure what is staged and what is real.

Directed by
Gerardo Naumann, Nele Wohlatz
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Starring
Ricardo Bär, Inés Bär, Samuel Bär
Overview
Ricardo Bar (22) is a young man who lives with his family in a little farm, in the border of Brazil and Argentina. There is mainly the jungle and the settlers, descendants of German immigrants. Ricardo doesn't want to inherit his father's land; he wants to become a pastor. Problems begin when Ricardo and the community tell the directors to stop shooting and leave. From that moment on Ricardo Bar tells two stories: one about a deal, the directors' offer to Ricardo in order to be able to shoot the film, and the other about Ricardo's life at this moment, his reaction to the director's offer, reenacted for the camera.

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Directed by
Gerardo Naumann, Nele Wohlatz
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Starring
Ricardo Bär, Inés Bär, Samuel Bär
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • faith
    • family
    • identity
    • isolation
    Places
    • countryside
    • small town
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension3
    Darkness4
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary, drama
    Directed by
    Gerardo Naumann, Nele Wohlatz
    Written by
    Nele Wohlatz, Gerardo Naumann
    Starring
    Ricardo Bär, Inés Bär, Samuel Bär, Fabio Fibke, Diego Littmann
    Runtime
    93 min
    Country
    Argentina
    Languages
    Spanish

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