• Director(s)

    Timm Kröger

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    118m

  • Cast

    Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler

Film

The Universal Theory

strong injury detail

Strange phenomena haunt a 1962 symposium for quantum physicists held in the Swiss Alps in this enigmatic and unsettling multi-lingual drama thriller, which contains gruesome images of the consequences of violence.…

Strange phenomena haunt a 1962 symposium for quantum physicists held in the Swiss Alps in this enigmatic and unsettling multi-lingual drama thriller, which contains gruesome images of the consequences of violence.

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violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

injury detail

theme

  • Director(s)

    Timm Kröger

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    118m

  • Cast

    Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler

strong injury detail
Classified Date:
16/09/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Picturehouse Entertainment
violence
There is moderate violence involving guns.
threat and horror
Scenes of moderate threat feature a man being shot at as he is chased, an unsettling journey in a lift which appears to accelerate on its descent, and children taking refuge from a snowstorm in a house where they go into a dark basement and their fate is left unknown.
language
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k').
sex
There is brief breast nudity in a post-coital scene, and a verbal reference to "used condoms".
discrimination
A scientist is accused of working with the Nazis on experiments to curb "Hebraic tendencies", and calls his accuser a "Jew lover". Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
drugs
There are references to a person experimenting with LSD.
injury detail
Victims of off-screen violence are seen in the aftermath with catastrophic head injuries which include black and white images of gory brain matter spilling out of skulls. Blood spreads from under the head of a shooting victim.
theme
There are mild upsetting scenes centred on the death of a parent.
alcohol and smoking
Frequent smoking by adults reflects the historical period in which the film is set.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
strong injury detail
Classified Date:
02/01/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Picturehouse Entertainment
violence
There is moderate violence involving guns.
threat and horror
Scenes of moderate threat feature a man being shot at as he is chased, an unsettling journey in a lift which appears to accelerate on its descent, and children taking refuge from a snowstorm in a house where they go into a dark basement and their fate is left unknown.
language
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k').
sex
There is brief breast nudity in a post-coital scene, and a verbal reference to "used condoms".
discrimination
A scientist is accused of working with the Nazis on experiments to curb "Hebraic tendencies", and calls his accuser a "Jew lover". Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
drugs
There are references to a person experimenting with LSD.
injury detail
Victims of off-screen violence are seen in the aftermath with catastrophic head injuries which include black and white images of gory brain matter spilling out of skulls. Blood spreads from under the head of a shooting victim.
theme
There are mild upsetting scenes centred on the death of a parent.
alcohol and smoking
Frequent smoking by adults reflects the historical period in which the film is set.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Classified Date:
02/01/2025
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Picturehouse Entertainment
Classified Date:
07/10/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Picturehouse Entertainment

  • Classified date

    02/01/2025

  • Language

    German