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Stained Skin

2021 · 9 min

A brief, dreamlike escape into fantasy that lingers over the bleakness of harsh labor.

Directed by: Adam Graf, Mandy Peterat
Genres: Fantasy, Animation, Drama
Starring: Marisa Wojtkowiak, Safinaz Sattar

Overview: Inside the halls of a dystopian textile factory two young workers shortly escape their harsh reality into the fantasies of a fairytale.

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Directed by: Adam Graf, Mandy Peterat
Genres: Fantasy, Animation, Drama
Starring: Marisa Wojtkowiak, Safinaz Sattar

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
survival
identity
Places: workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	4
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: fantasy, animation, drama
Directed by: Adam Graf, Mandy Peterat
Written by: Mirjam Khera
Starring: Marisa Wojtkowiak, Safinaz Sattar
Cinematography: Adam Graf
Runtime: 9 min
Country: Germany
Languages: English

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