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Aurora Borealis: Northern Light

2017 · 104 min

A quiet, emotionally heavy family drama that unfolds slowly, asking patience as buried history surfaces between a mother and daughter.

Directed by: Márta Mészáros
Genres: Drama
Starring: Mari Törőcsik, Ildikó Tóth, Antonio de la Torre

Overview: The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of the relationship between mother and daughter. A successful lawyer in Vienna, Olga is called back to Hungary when her old mother, Mary suddenly falls into a coma. While Mary is floating between life and death, Olga finds a deeply silent secret. The increasingly passionate research leads back to the post-war Europe of the '50s.

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Directed by: Márta Mészáros
Genres: Drama
Starring: Mari Törőcsik, Ildikó Tóth, Antonio de la Torre

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
darkstrength 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: family
memory
identity
grief
parenthood
Places: big city
single country house
hospital
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Márta Mészáros
Written by: Zoltán Jancsó, Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki
Starring: Mari Törőcsik, Ildikó Tóth, Antonio de la Torre, Franciska Törőcsik, Eva-Maria Prosek, József Wunderlich, Jákob Ladányi, Nahoko Fort-Nishigami
Music: Bartosz Chajdecki
Runtime: 104 min
Country: Lithuania, Hungary
Languages: German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, Russian

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