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Black Moon
GERMANY · 1975

Black Moon

Louis Malle
gender conflict coming of age dystopian society magical realism escape and refuge
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Synopsis

There is a global civil war between men and women. A teenage girl tries to escape this reality and arrives at a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old, bedridden woman who stays in contact with the world through her radio.

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