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Heart of Glass

1976 · 94 min

A hypnotic, dreamlike descent into collective madness, slow and unsettling, with an eerie, allegorical atmosphere that lingers.

Overview: A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
madness
isolation
grief
fate
Places: small town
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Written by: Werner Herzog, Herbert Achternbusch
Starring: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba, Volker Prechtel, Brunhilde Klöckner, Wolf Albrecht, Thomas Binkley
Cinematography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Runtime: 94 min
Country: Germany
Languages: German

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