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Zaun an Zaun

Name: Zaun an Zaun
Director: Peter Gersina
Released: 2017
Duration: 89 min

Representation Score

1.6/10

Minimal

2017

Director

Peter Gersina

Runtime

89 minutes

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Zaun an Zaun is a character-driven comedy that focuses on the friction between two neighbors with opposing lifestyles. While the film lacks broad characters who reflect more than one aspect of diversity, it subtly upends traditional gender hierarchies. By positioning the female lead as the professional authority and landlord, the film grants her significant economic influence. However, the narrative remains narrow, focusing on individual temperaments rather than systemic or identity-based themes. Ultimately, the film offers insights into social and psychological incompatibilities, rather than diverse human experiences.

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Category Breakdown

Does Zaun an Zaun have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The film does not include any characters who identify as LGBTQ+ or have non-cisgender identities. The romantic comedy plot does not address specific sexual orientations.

How does Zaun an Zaun portray gender?

Fair

Lissi challenges traditional gender roles by being the economically powerful landlady and successful author. Kenan is characterized by his domesticity and meticulous household management.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Zaun an Zaun?

Minimal

The narrative does not indicate any racial diversity among the characters. Characters are defined by their social class and personality types rather than ethnic backgrounds.

How does Zaun an Zaun represent religion and culture?

Fair

The story explores the tension between strict bourgeois order and fluid artistic lifestyles. It examines the breakdown of traditional domestic norms through the contrasting characters.

Does Zaun an Zaun include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no mention of characters with visible or invisible disabilities in the film.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional gender roles by giving the female lead professional and structural authority.
Explores the tension between rigid social structures and more liberated, unconventional lifestyles.

Limited or Absent

Lacks significant breadth in terms of characters who reflect more than one aspect of diversity.
Provides no evidence of racial, ethnic, or disability-based diversity within the narrative.

Official Synopsis

Kenan and Lissi live side by side in a semi-detached house in Munich - and yet in different worlds. He is an order-loving bourgeois who doesn't tolerate a speck of dust in his house and devotes himself meticulously to growing roses in the garden. No wonder that she, a best-selling author and life artist, has very little to do with the philistine next door. There is only one thing that connects them: Lissi is the landlady of Kenan's semi-detached house.

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