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1965 [GERMAN]

Action / Drama / History

7
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 874 874

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Jean-Marie Straub Photo
Jean-Marie Straub

Top cast

Rudolf Thome Photo
Rudolf Thome as
Anita Bell Photo
Anita Bell as Alte Kartenspielerin
Johannes Buzalski Photo
Johannes Buzalski as
Heinrich Hargesheimer Photo
Heinrich Hargesheimer as Heinrich Fähmel at age 80
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430.46 MB
956*720
German 2.0
13
Subtitles
23.976 fps
12 hr 55 min
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843.98 MB
1424*1072
German 2.0
13
Subtitles
23.976 fps
12 hr 55 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 3 / 10

How do you review a film that you

How do you review a film that you don't understand at all? Lots of tedious, wordy dialogues with no sense of context whatsoever, I only had the barest idea what was going on or what anyone was talking about. Scenes jump from one time period to another without warning, and I didn't know what was happening when or who anyone was. It just confused the hell out of me, and furthermore it's all done in such a minimalist style that it's painfully dull. It's just a bunch of people you never get to know, spilling words out of their mouths as fast as they possibly can. But maybe it's my fault? Maybe I'm too dumb to figure it out, or wasn't paying close enough attention. Maybe I'm getting too conventional as I get older.
Reviewed by marcosmarino

A challenging film

This is one of the most important films made in the sixties, and should be understood as an attempt to develop non-classical forms of film narrative in a politically-oriented way. The movie is based on a novel by Heinrich Boll which tells the story of a german family from 1900 to 1950, from the beginning of the XXth century to the rising of nazism and the postwar years. The plot from the novel is however condensed and disarticulated in the film, with many flashbacks, and therefore the viewer is encouraged to reconstruct the story and to fill the gaps. This creates a fascinating atmosphere and conveys the main message from Straub: that Germany, in the sixties, was still haunted by the specter of nazism, and in that sense German people were "not reconciled" yet.If you are not used to art movies, this film will be a difficult one, but you should keep in mind that this movie is closer to a painting by Picasso than to a TV series. If you don´t like this kind of movies, don´t watch this one, and if you watch it by mistake, don´t send silly comments to IMDB:
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