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Unspeakable Crime

2018 · 70 min

A quiet, harrowing testimony that asks you to sit with unbearable pain and the slow, fragile act of speaking it aloud.

Directed by
Cécile Allégra
Genres
Documentary
Overview
In the shadow of an anonymous rooms, somewhere in Tunis, a man - Yasine - painfully utters fragments of words. Words that speak about an ancient, shameful, overwhelming wound: a rape, committed by khadafist soldiers during the 2011 war. Through his words, and those of other men who finally dare to speak after seven years of silence, the extent of and unspeakable crime - mass male rape - gradually resurfaces.

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Directed by
Cécile Allégra
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • trauma
  • war
  • violence
  • healing
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Action0
Horror4
Humour0
Realism10
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness9
Complexity5
Emotional weight10

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Genres
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Directed by
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Runtime
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Languages
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