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The Exchange

2016 · 6 min

A playful, wordless curiosity that zips by like a vintage silent reel, charming you with its hand-cranked texture and sly economic wit.

Directed by
Markus Mischkowski, Kai-Maria Steinkühler
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Markus Mischkowski, Kai-Maria Steinkühler, Bernhard Marsch
Overview
A 50 Euro note changes its owners and pays all debts – a parable on actual financial dept-crisis and the theory of money circulation, realized as a hommage to early silent movies and filmed with a hand-cranked camera.

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Directed by
Markus Mischkowski, Kai-Maria Steinkühler
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Markus Mischkowski, Kai-Maria Steinkühler, Bernhard Marsch
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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • greed
  • class
  • power
  • deception
  • fate
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism5
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Markus Mischkowski, Kai-Maria Steinkühler
Written by
Markus Mischkowski, Kai-Maria Steinkühler
Starring
Markus Mischkowski, Kai-Maria Steinkühler, Bernhard Marsch, Christos Dassios, Piet Fuchs, Robert Nacken, Hans-Dieter Delkus, Felix Mende
Cinematography
KaPe Schmidt
Runtime
6 min
Country
Germany
Languages
No Language

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