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AN OCEAN

2021 · 18 min

A quiet, heavy documentary that sits with a man's long-carried pain, asking you to witness rather than look away.

Directed by: Paul Scheufler
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Markus Diegmann, Picasso

Overview: The trembling starts in his neck when Markus gets closer to the images that have chased him for 49 years. Now he steers his motor home south, as far away from his past as possible.

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Directed by: Paul Scheufler
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Markus Diegmann, Picasso

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: trauma
memory
isolation
survival
healing
Places: road trip
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Horror	3
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Realism	9
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Tension	5
Darkness	8
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Paul Scheufler
Written by: Paul Scheufler
Starring: Markus Diegmann, Picasso
Runtime: 18 min
Country: Germany
Languages: German

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