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Meris Kanispol

2022 · 365 min

A slow, heavy plunge into tragic coincidence and moral fog, demanding patience as it unfolds across decades and languages.

Overview
Growing up with his stepparents in Greece, a young man of 20 murders a vagrant, who unbeknownst to him is his father. While serving his sentence, he falls in love and has a child with a woman who works at the prison. Neither of them know that she is his biological mother. 20 years later, living with his daughter in Berlin, he gradually loses his sight.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • fate
  • family
  • identity
  • guilt
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • prison
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness9
Complexity8
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
Bawer Said, Ray Basa
Starring
Mohamed Al-Fayed, Ali Asgar, Alison Sealy-Smith, Gandi Haji, Bawer Said
Runtime
365 min
Country
Germany, Iraq
Languages
English, French, German, Kurdish, Spanish

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