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The Passenger review – wartime drama has a noirish haze but no real darkness

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Summary
Nutrition label

67% Informative

A wealthy Jewish businessman takes a series of Kafkaesque journeys on the German train system soon after Kristallnacht , driven from his home and in flight for his life.

Otto Silbermann never makes it out of the country but maddeningly loops round and round, stuck in the trap of rising Nazi terror.

The production, adapted by Nadya Menuhin and directed by Tim Supple , is given a symbolic, stripped-down staging.

VR Score

61

Informative language

54

Neutral language

69

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

52

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

Source diversity

1

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