Movie

St. Louis

2019 · 88 min

A sober, quietly harrowing docudrama that keeps you tense and heartsick as desperate hope slowly curdles into dread.

Overview: Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.
How it feels: Bleak, tense, melancholic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Survival, isolation, fate, family
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
fate
family
justice
Places: sea
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none