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Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives against the backdrop of the similarly doomed pre-Wende Germany and 2020s United States. A short-film adaptation of the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.
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german-german bordersurrealpuppetpolkapost war germanygerman americanpostmodernhamletelectronic musicgerman colonialismgerman poetrygerman reunificationugly americanhand puppetgerman expressionismbrechtianfeminist literatureopheliapractical special effectsexperimental surrealismanalog photographyanti-imperialismanti-consumerism4kanti-capitalistcommunistpuppet horror
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