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Betrayal

1994 · 61 min

A quiet, uneasy documentary that sits with a man's disbelief as a trusted friendship slowly curdles into suspicion and moral reckoning.

Directed by
Fredrik von Krusenstjerna
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Rikard Wolff, Sascha Anderson, Björn Cederberg
Overview
Journalist Björn Cederberg travels to Berlin, Jena, Weimar and Rome to meet his old friend, the cultural worker Sascha Anderson. He got to know Anderson in 1983 in the GDR, where he was a central figure among opposition writers and artists in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg. Cederberg has a hard time believing that it is true that the media reports, namely that for 20 years Anderson has been an informant to Stasi, the East German authority that spied on its own citizens.

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Directed by
Fredrik von Krusenstjerna
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Rikard Wolff, Sascha Anderson, Björn Cederberg
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 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
  • betrayal
  • deception
  • loyalty
  • politics
  • memory
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism9
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Fredrik von Krusenstjerna
Written by
Björn Cederberg, Fredrik von Krusenstjerna
Starring
Rikard Wolff, Sascha Anderson, Björn Cederberg
Cinematography
Jan Röed
Runtime
61 min
Country
Sweden
Languages
Swedish, German

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