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The Passenger

2022 · 162 min

A long, solemn operatic staging that weighs memory and guilt, unfolding slowly and demanding patience for its emotional payoff.

Overview
Mieczyslaw Weinberg's powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family's ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz's autobiographical novel.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 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
  • memory
  • guilt
  • trauma
  • war
  • identity
Places
  • sea
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • musical
  • nonlinear
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour0
Realism6
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
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Directed by
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Starring
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Runtime
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Languages
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