# The Door (2009)

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**Original title**: *Die Tür*
**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
**Directed by**: Anno Saul
**Written by**: Jan Berger, Akif Pirinçci
**Starring**: Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Valeria Eisenbart, Heike Makatsch, Tim Seyfi, Thomas Thieme

> *If you could go back in time, would you?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Winter nights in Berlin. A child’s violin scrapes a high, lonely note.

A grieving painter moves into a half-renovated villa where the walls breathe. Strange knocks echo from a door that wasn’t there yesterday.

German neo-noir with a haunted hearth and a brush that weeps.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, outsider, slow-burn

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