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Deed Undone

1989 · 73 min

A quiet, formally experimental chamber piece that asks you to sit with silences and watch strangers become each other.

Directed by
Frans van de Staak
Genres
Drama
Starring
Thom Hoffman, Martien van den Ouwelant, Olga Zuiderhoek
Overview
Two couples. The four characters are played by eight actors. There is little dialogue. Sometimes a couple does not seem to live together, just to be alive together in the same room. Each one of them at one time walks through an anymous part of Amsterdam. They put their feet down with a will, clicking their way through town. We do not know where or why they are going. To a meeting, to get some exercise, nowhere? They have difficulty in communicating. They leave notes to each other on the table rather than talk.

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Directed by
Frans van de Staak
Genres
Drama
Starring
Thom Hoffman, Martien van den Ouwelant, Olga Zuiderhoek
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • identity
  • love
  • betrayal
  • loneliness
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism7
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Frans van de Staak
Written by
Stan Lapinski, Frans van de Staak
Starring
Thom Hoffman, Martien van den Ouwelant, Olga Zuiderhoek, Catherine ten Bruggencate, Titus Muizelaar, Hans Hausdörfer, Chris Jolles, Lineke Rijxman
Runtime
73 min
Country
Netherlands
Languages
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