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Goliath96

2019 · 109 min

A slow, suffocating plunge into a mother's desperate love and a son's self-imposed exile, emotionally raw and quietly devastating.

Directed by
Marcus Richardt
Genres
Drama
Starring
Katja Riemann, Nils Rovira-Muñoz, David Wurawa
Overview
In her desperate longing for sympathy and understanding, a single mother tries to get back in touch with her grown-up son, who locked himself up in his room since two years. She doesn't sense that she runs the risk of loosing him forever.

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Directed by
Marcus Richardt
Genres
Drama
Starring
Katja Riemann, Nils Rovira-Muñoz, David Wurawa
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 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
  • family
  • grief
  • obsession
  • loneliness
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
Thomas Grabowsky, Marcus Richardt
Starring
Katja Riemann, Nils Rovira-Muñoz, David Wurawa, Elisa Schlott, Jasmin Tabatabai, Erwin Leder, Marie Nasemann, Tobias Kay
Music
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Cinematography
Wedigo von Schultzendorff
Runtime
109 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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