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Parents

2020 · 96 min

A wry, unsettling family portrait that blurs fact and fiction, leaving you amused and uneasy in equal measure.

Directed by: Ruth Schweikert, Eric Bergkraut
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Eric Bergkraut, Elisabeth Niederer, Elia Bergkraut

Overview: Two parents in Zurich think they have been doing everything right. Yet their teenage children disrupt their perfect family system until the parents move out themselves. The boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred.

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Directed by: Ruth Schweikert, Eric Bergkraut
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Eric Bergkraut, Elisabeth Niederer, Elia Bergkraut

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Tone: satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
identity
parenthood
coming-of-age
deception
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	5
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy, drama
Directed by: Ruth Schweikert, Eric Bergkraut
Written by: Eric Bergkraut, Ruth Schweikert
Starring: Eric Bergkraut, Elisabeth Niederer, Elia Bergkraut, Ruben Bergkraut, Orell Bergkraut, Hagar Admoni, Zohra Shetab, Beat Schlatter
Music: Marie-Jeanne Serero
Cinematography: Stéphane Kuthy
Runtime: 96 min
Country: Switzerland
Languages: German

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