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The Street

1991 · 89 min

A dreamy, disorienting drift through a changing city, where longing and imagination blur into the streets around you.

Overview
East Berlin, 1989: 30-year-old photojournalist Georg follows a beautiful, mysterious dancer Miss Albena. Blinded by love, he dreams about her. His imagination and reality – a world in the midst of radical social change – get mixed up.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • obsession
    • identity
    • love
    • memory
    • politics
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    • unreliable narrator
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance6
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Andreas Höntsch
    Written by
    Andreas Höntsch, Michael Göthe, Carmen Blazejewski
    Starring
    Eberhard Mellies, Wolfgang Winkler, André Hennicke, Thomas Pötzsch, Claudia Maria Meyer, Erik Rossbander, Claudia Wenzel
    Runtime
    89 min
    Country
    East Germany
    Languages
    German

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