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The Seventh Continent

1989 · 107 min

A cold, methodical descent into domestic despair, watching routine curdle into something horrifying with unnerving calm.

Overview
Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • family
  • madness
  • death
  • class
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror6
Humour1
Realism9
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness10
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Michael Haneke
Written by
Michael Haneke, Johanna Teicht
Starring
Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Silvia Fenz, Robert Dietl, Georg Friedrich, Udo Samel, Elisabeth Rath
Cinematography
Anton Peschke
Runtime
107 min
Country
Austria
Languages
German

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