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Two to One

2024 · 116 min

A warm, gently satirical caper about scrambling to adapt when the world changes overnight, with a bittersweet undertow.

Directed by: Natja Brunckhorst
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Max Riemelt, Ronald Zehrfeld

Tagline: The best things in life are free.
Overview: After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a communist family discovers a bunker full of money soon to be worthless. With the help of their neighbors, they embark on a race against time to enter the capitalist world in style.

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Directed by: Natja Brunckhorst
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Max Riemelt, Ronald Zehrfeld

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
class
friendship
freedom
identity
Places: small town
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	3
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: comedy, drama, crime, romance
Directed by: Natja Brunckhorst
Written by: Natja Brunckhorst
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Max Riemelt, Ronald Zehrfeld, Peter Kurth, Martin Brambach, Uwe Preuss, Ursula Werner, Robert Höller
Music: Amaury Laurent Bernier, Hannah von Hübbenet
Cinematography: Martin Langer
Runtime: 116 min
Country: Germany
Languages: German

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