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Ghosts

2005 · 85 min

A quiet, haunting drift through Berlin, leaving you unsettled and aching for its lost characters.

Overview: Nina, a mentally ill teenage orphan, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. Meanwhile, Francoise is picked up at a Berlin psychiatric hospital by her husband, Pierre. After spotting Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but no one believes her.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 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: identity
isolation
grief
loneliness
betrayal
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Christian Petzold
Written by: Harun Farocki, Christian Petzold
Starring: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing, Benno Fürmann, Anna Schudt, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Philipp Hauß
Music: Marco Dreckkötter, Stefan Will
Cinematography: Hans Fromm
Runtime: 85 min
Country: France, Germany
Languages: French, German

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