A woman dreams of her own past-life suicide. The building remembers.
A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions.
Cinematography
Berlin locations that breathe menace
Direction
Graf's suffocating close-ups of dread
Score
Synth unease that refuses resolution
Director
Dominik Graf
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Dominik Graf's theatrical debut after years in German television; he later disowned much of his early work, making Second Sight a genuine obscurity.
Shot in West Berlin's Kreuzberg district during its squatter-punk era, the film accidentally documents a city that would look radically different just years later.
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