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The Burden

1972 · 80 min

A quiet, downbeat return-home drama where old ties and money quietly unsettle a man, watched with patient attention.

Overview
A young man who lives and works in the big town, comes to his native village to visit his family. He meets his old love, who had finished school but can’t find job. He spends his time with old friends in the bars. At the same time, one of his friends comes from Germany full of money.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 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
  • isolation
  • love
  • class
  • work
  • friendship
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Vuk Babić
Written by
Ferenc Deák
Starring
Šandor Medve, Mihajlo Kostić 'Pljaka', Snežana Nikšić, Svetislav Đorđević, Irén Bada, István Homoki Nagy, Piri Fazekaš, Peter Szel
Runtime
80 min
Country
Yugoslavia
Languages
Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian

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