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Parched

2005 · 90 min

A slow, somber descent into loss and endurance, watching a life quietly dismantled by history and distance.

Tagline
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Overview
Two trains uncontrollably move towards each other within temporal boundaries of a human life. One of them is taking a genial young man to his unforeseen future; he would marry his beloved; have a son; become a brilliant doctor; do his duty and save the live of enemies of the communist regime; get a 20-years sentence for that. Prison would turn out to be an unbearable nightmare; his wife would eventually give in to the tortures of the authorities and seek divorce; this would mean no one to visit him in prison. 15 years without any news about his child, only a snapshot of his family on which the tree of them are smiling and happy.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 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
  • survival
  • betrayal
  • family
  • justice
Places
  • prison
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour1
Realism8
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Paraskeva Djukelova, Deyan Donkov, Stefan Valdobrev, Iossif Surchadzhiev, Nikolay Urumov, Tzvetana Maneva, Yordan Bikov, Valeri Yordanov
Cinematography
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Runtime
90 min
Country
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Languages
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