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Dark Fortune

2016 · 113 min

A quiet, emotionally heavy drama that draws you into a psychologist's unsettling bond with a traumatized child, asking for patient attention.

Directed by
Stefan Haupt
Genres
Drama
Starring
Eleni Haupt, Noé Ricklin, Elisa Plüss
Overview
Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As time goes by, she loses the professional distance to the patient, and when Yves' relatives begin a heavy dispute about the boy's future, Eliane makes an unorthodox decision, that throws her life off track.

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Directed by
Stefan Haupt
Genres
Drama
Starring
Eleni Haupt, Noé Ricklin, Elisa Plüss
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • trauma
  • isolation
  • family
  • obsession
Places
  • hospital
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Stefan Haupt
Written by
Stefan Haupt
Starring
Eleni Haupt, Noé Ricklin, Elisa Plüss, Carla Chiara Bär, Martin Hug, Peter Jecklin, Alice Flotron, Rebecca Indermaur
Cinematography
Tobias Dengler
Runtime
113 min
Country
Switzerland
Languages
German

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