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Ich Nicht

1969 · 13 min

A wordless, music-driven short that feels like a tense, theatrical experiment in breaking free.

Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Genres: Drama
Starring: Hans Peter Korff, Ursula Sieg, Magdalene von Nußbaum

Overview: A staging of a young man's liberation from his bourgeois confinement using only music and sounds.

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Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Genres: Drama
Starring: Hans Peter Korff, Ursula Sieg, Magdalene von Nußbaum

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 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: freedom
isolation
identity
rebellion
Places: home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	5
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Written by: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Hans Peter Korff, Ursula Sieg, Magdalene von Nußbaum, Horst Uhde, Cornelius Bischoff
Cinematography: Jörg-Michael Baldenius
Runtime: 13 min
Country: Germany
Languages: No Language

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