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Berlino

1999 · 26 min

A quiet, patient look at tired men far from home, filling empty evenings with talk and phone calls; it asks you to sit with their displacement.

Directed by
Valeska Grisebach
Genres
Documentary
Overview
What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored, phone home. They try to survive. Berlino is a moving documentary about displacement.

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Directed by
Valeska Grisebach
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 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
  • isolation
  • immigration
  • work
  • loneliness
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Valeska Grisebach
Written by
Valeska Grisebach
Runtime
26 min
Country
Germany

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