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Synopsis
The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City, informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945) written by Bianca Stigter. McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.
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Movie Details
| Production Budget: | $5,000,000 |
| United Kingdom Releases: | February 9th, 2024 (Limited) |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 for thematic material, strong language and sexual material, smoking and brief drug use. (Rating bulletin 2808 (cert #54728), 11/8/2023) |
| Running Time: | 262 minutes |
| Keywords: | World War II, Set in Amsterdam, Set in Netherlands, Holocaust, Social and Cultural Documentary |
| Source: | Based on Factual Book/Article |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Factual |
| Production/Financing Companies: | A24, Film4, Regency Enterprises, Family Affair Films, Lammas Park, VPRO, The Netherlands Film Fund, The Netherlands Film Production Incentive of the Netherlands Film Fund, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Stichting Virtutis Opus |
| Production Countries: | Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States |
| Languages: | Dutch, English |