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The Wreckers

1959 · 92 min

A stark, brooding island drama where hunger and superstition breed desperate choices, unfolding with a slow, oppressive gravity.

Directed by: Charles Brabant
Genres: Drama, Adventure
Starring: Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel, Charles Vanel

Overview: In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some residents exalted hold responsible the young Moira, equivalent to a witch. The old Marnez, "head" of the island, is trying to restore calm and opposes Yann Le Heart, the fiancé of his daughter Louise Kermelen, who wants causing a shipwreck to save the island from famine.

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Directed by: Charles Brabant
Genres: Drama, Adventure
Starring: Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel, Charles Vanel

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 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: survival
isolation
faith
morality
fate
Places: small town
sea
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	4
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, adventure
Directed by: Charles Brabant
Written by: Roland Laudenbach, Gwenaël Bolloré, Charles Brabant
Starring: Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel, Charles Vanel, Renée Cosima, Alfred Adam, Jean d'Yd, Gérard Darrieu, Guy Decomble
Runtime: 92 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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