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Not Reconciled (1965)
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Original name: Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Not Reconciled, the title of the Straubs’ first feature-length film, is engraved on their work like an inscription. It is a story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll’s story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, blocks, breaks and sudden turns, as the life story of a German family, covering numerous generations, is propelled forward. Terms such as “interwar period” and “post-war period” are blown up with a single cut, word or click of a billiard ball. Not Reconciled remains one of the most important German film of the past fifty years.
Style:
serious, family saga, historical drama, bleak, art house, reflective, period piece, tense, philosophical, melancholic ...
Plot:
german history, guilt, reconciliation, betrayal, memory, family secret, post war germany, moral ambiguity, suppression, revenge, loyalty, identity crisis, adaptation, symbolism, domestic drama, melancholy, nazism, family relations, father son relationship, flash forward, flashback, psychological drama, family secrets
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
germany
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