Sanctuary

Sanctuary

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Release Date

6/18/2015

Runtime

104 mins

Genres

Overview

Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Budget

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Revenue

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A tough, intimate portrait of adolescent rebellion and trauma set within the suffocating walls of a religious reform institution. The film charts one boy's struggle against both the system that confines him and the wounds from home that follow him there.

Mood

MelancholicDefiantClaustrophobicTense

Themes

Coming of ageFreedomFamilyPowerSurvival

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Child endangermentSexual violence

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