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Morgen

2010 · 100 min

A quiet, patient slice of border life that unfolds slowly, mixing dry humor with unspoken tension and a gentle sadness.

Overview
NELU, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means posible, to Hungary and then further to Western Europe. One morning, NELU will “fish” something different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verballly, the two men will somehow understand each other. NELU takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. He doesn’t really know how to help this stranger. The Turkish man gives NELU all the money he has on him so he will help him cross the border. Eventually, NELU takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border tomorrow, MORGEN…

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 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
  • immigration
  • isolation
  • morality
  • survival
  • family
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Marian Crișan
Written by
Marian Crișan
Starring
András Hatházi, Yilmaz Yalcin, Elvira Rimbu, Dorin C. Zachei, Răzvan Vicoveanu, Levente Molnár
Cinematography
Tudor Mircea
Runtime
100 min
Country
France, Hungary, Romania
Languages
Hungarian, Romanian

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