Word: durrenmatt
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Written by Swiss playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the play takes place in a world where “technology and information can end everything in a single moment...
...nice, creepy situation, derived from a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt and visualized by the director, Sean Penn. But the screenwriters, Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski, permit Jerry his ordinariness. He really loves Lori. And he is a marvelous surrogate father to her child. It is possible to imagine his pledge, his obsession, being drowned in domesticity. If only those suspicious cars didn't keep pulling up to his pumps...