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Night Shapes

1999 · 101 min

A wandering, humane night through a big city, weaving strangers' small hopes and quiet sorrows into something tender and bittersweet.

Directed by
Andreas Dresen
Genres
Drama
Overview
The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.

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Directed by
Andreas Dresen
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • class
  • survival
  • loneliness
  • identity
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour4
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Andreas Dresen
Written by
Andreas Dresen
Starring
Meriam Abbas, Dominique Horwitz, Oliver Breite, Susanne Bormann, Michael Gwisdek, Horst Krause, Axel Prahl, Ursula Karusseit
Cinematography
Andreas Höfer
Runtime
101 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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