Finsterworld (2013)

Directed by

Frauke Finsterwalder

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This German film follows several interconnected characters over the course of a single day. It shows their awkward and uncomfortable interactions in modern Germany.

cringe comedydarkly comicunsettlingsatiricalmultiple storylinesobservationalbleakquirky

What happens

Finsterworld is a 2013 German cringe comedy drama directed by Frauke Finsterwalder, her debut feature film. Co-written by Finsterwalder and Christian Kracht, it follows interconnected, parallel stories over the course of one day in Germany. The title Finsterworld is a play on Finsterwalder's surname, which can be translated to English as "from the dark forest (cf forest ~ wood)". It is not to be confused with the Dutch village of Finsterwolde, indeed meaning "dark forest", "dark wood". Finsterwalders ancestry might well be traced back to this village, given its proximity to the German border, the fact that Dutch 'Finsterwolder' also means "from Finsterwolde" and German "wald" has the same root as Dutch "wold(e), woud(e)", common parts of toponyms both in the Netherlands and in Germany. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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