
David
1979

Representation Score
Fair
2019
Director
Caroline Link
Runtime
119 minutes
Average Rating
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By placing a underrepresented Jewish family at the heart of the narrative, the film provides a powerful critique of systemic oppression during the Nazi era. Through a domestic, child-centered lens, it illustrates the loss of ability to act experienced by minorities. However, the narrative scope is limited to a specific socio-political context. It does not include LGBTQ+ identities or characters with disabilities, focusing instead on the unique pressures faced by a Jewish family in 1930s Berlin.
Category Breakdown
The film does not include any LGBTQ+ characters. The story focuses solely on the nuclear family and the political climate of the 1930s.
The story highlights the resilience of mothers, particularly Dorothea, through her protective and emotional labor. Despite traditional domestic roles, the film emphasizes the mother's active role in protecting her family during displacement.
The film centers on a Jewish family facing systemic discrimination and disenfranchisement. It delves into the socioeconomic impacts of state-sponsored racial persecution.
The narrative critiques nationalist and authoritarian structures by depicting the Nazi regime as a corrupt institution. It examines the fragility of societal order under unchecked nationalism.
The film does not prominently feature characters with physical or neurodivergent disabilities.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.

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