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Alcohol

1920 · 96 min

A somber, slow descent into ruin, watching ordinary lives unravel with quiet, moralizing tragedy.

Overview
A middle-class man falls in love with a woman from a more ordinary background, and they end up working in a variety act where they sink into alcoholism. He then kills another man whom he mistakenly believes is a rival.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • addiction
  • class
  • love
  • betrayal
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism7
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
E.A. Dupont, Alfred Lind
Written by
Alfred Lind, E.A. Dupont
Starring
Hanni Weisse, Emil Birron, Jean Moreau, Ernst Rückert, Maria Zelenka, Ferry Sikla, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Cinematography
Karl Hasselmann, Charles Paulus
Runtime
96 min
Country
Germany
Languages
No Language

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