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The Year 1939

1993 · 107 min

A patient, essayistic montage of images and remembered voices that asks you to sit still and piece history together.

Overview
An exemplary reconstruction of a historical turning point. Time and again, the images and the remembered stories.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • memory
    • art
    • media
    Places
    None
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour1
    Realism9
    Romance1
    Tension1
    Darkness3
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Peter von Bagh
    Written by
    Peter von Bagh
    Cinematography
    Juha-Veli Äkräs
    Runtime
    107 min
    Country
    Finland
    Languages
    Finnish

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