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Poster for Someone

Someone

2017 · 14 min

A brief, harrowing plunge into wartime cruelty that lingers on the fragile possibility of mercy from an unexpected quarter.

Overview
At the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers bent on brutal revenge for past atrocities attack a German city. Compassion comes from an unlikely source. Based on a true story.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • violence
  • war
  • trauma
  • morality
  • survival
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour0
Realism8
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, history
Directed by
Marco Gadge
Written by
René Jacob, Marco Gadge
Starring
Elisabeth Orth, Fabienne Haller, Jochen Nickel, Maximilian Braun, Tigran Petrosyan, Vladislav Grakovskiy, Francis Fulton-Smith, Jan Hasenfuß
Cinematography
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Runtime
14 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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