Movies like I Am Dina
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I Am Dina (2002)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
Style:
talky, intense, emotional, stylized, touching, sincere, semi serious, sexy, erotic, psychological ...
Plot:
relationships, justice, life philosophy, family relations, family problems, contests and competitions, haunted by the past, death in the family, older woman younger man sex, parents and children, master and servant, curses spells and rituals, psychology, bdsm, self discovery, war, catastrophe, twists and turns, women, loneliness, god, supernatural, life, friendship, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
norway, europe
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Story:
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