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Werckmeister Harmonies

Name: Werckmeister Harmonies
Genre: Drama
Released: 2000
Duration: 139 min
Cast: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Alfréd Járai, Gyula Pauer

Taste attributes: dramamysteryanimalsmusic/danceslowfresh & originalwholesomeheavyintricatesurrealenclosedemotive & stirringall consuming questcomplex relationshiphuman spirit/resilience/survivalself destruction/implosionsocial commentarysolving the riddle/not as it seemsunderdog triumphs

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Boxlist takeExpect an inventive, moving drama, small-scale rather than epic. Best if you like stories that hit hard.

Taste details

Pace: slow · Originality: very fresh · Tone: wholesome · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: intricate · Structure: surreal · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score

Quality rating

8.0 /10

TMDB · 205 votes

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Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Weightiness: Weighty / heavy, just how this profile likes it
Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it

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Wholesomeness: Wholesome, where this profile leans unsavoury

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Synopsis

This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions...

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