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Dirt(1986)
Status: Released
Date: 1986-11-27
55%
6 Votes
Time: 1h 38m
"An allegory on the obsessive ousider and the banal roots of totalitarianism"
Overview:
Josef "Schmutz" (german for "dirt"), a security guard obsessed with duty and cleanliness, is given the task of guarding a decommissioned industrial plant. While maintaining his devotion to the authority of property right, the self-proclaimed "Representative of Ownership" is himself slowly losing his sense of reality.
Languages: German.
Countries:
Austria
ProductionCompanies:
MR TV-Film
Movie: Dirt
Top 4 Billed Cast
Hans-Michael Rehberg
Oberkontrollor
Hanno Pöschl
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Overview
Josef "Schmutz" (german for "dirt"), a security guard obsessed with duty and cleanliness, is given the task of guarding a decommissioned industrial plant. While maintaining his devotion to the authority of property right, the self-proclaimed "Representative of Ownership" is himself slowly losing his sense of reality.
Release Date
1986-11-27
Average
5.5
Rating:
2.8 startsTagline
"An allegory on the obsessive ousider and the banal roots of totalitarianism"
Genres
Languages:
Deutsch
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