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Is Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by safe for children?

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# Parental Guide: Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by This documentary-style interview explores East German wartime memories with no violence, language, or sexual content. It's an intellectual, dialogue-driven film that may interest older children studying history, though younger children will likely find it slow and abstract.
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Violence
Mild
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Language / Profanity
None
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Sexual Content
None
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Horror / Scary
None
Type
Movie
Released
1990
Rating
NR
Genre
Movie

In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip from the Russian film maker Sergei Parajanov’s 1961 film entitled The Ukranian Rhapsody. Here a soldier of the Red Army is writing a letter to his fiancee Oskana on the home front, describing to her his imagined vision of listening to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata in the middle of battle. “In the past I rarely listened to Beethoven,” he says, “if he had composed only the Moonlight Sonata, the war would have had to stop in front of it too.” The scene then is interrupted by the arrival of German tanks.

Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller
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Under 6
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Ages 6–8
With parent
Ages 9–12
Yes
Ages 13+
Yes

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