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Schlaflose Nächte

1988

A quiet, drifting wander through night-lit streets with restless young people whose small self-deceptions feel achingly familiar.

Directed by
Marcel Gisler
Starring
Rudolf Nadler, Anne Knaak, Cordula Stepanek
Overview
In Berlin, young people search for purpose, happiness, and love on extensive nightly forays. They often get in their own way, masking their disorientation with busyness and self-deception in everyday life.

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Directed by
Marcel Gisler
Starring
Rudolf Nadler, Anne Knaak, Cordula Stepanek
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • love
  • coming-of-age
  • loneliness
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Directed by
Marcel Gisler
Written by
Marcel Gisler, Rudolf Nadler
Starring
Rudolf Nadler, Anne Knaak, Cordula Stepanek, Andreas Herder, Matthias Tiefenbacher, Christoph Krix, Dina Leipzig, Dominik Bender
Cinematography
Patrick Lindenmaier
Country
Germany, Switzerland

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