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Significant screen grab
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Summary of scene
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Choose three important shots/scenes
Meaning in key features and terms - DISTINCT and camera, editing, mise en scene, sound, themes
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Timings and Order
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Narrative
Equilibrium/disruption/obstacle(Todorov)
Verisimilitude?
Denotation/Connotation/Enigma(Barthes) Binary opposites? (Strauss)
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Fred
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East German Diplomatic Mission – West Germany
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Non diegetic audio of Reagan American President explaining how the Russians are causing problems.
Luxurious apartment, cigarettes, coffee shown in the capitalist part of West Germany.
Non-diegetic music to add emotion and suspense to the situation.
Cigarettes present addiction and intoxication yet show luxury.
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Drawer full of luxury items such as branded coffee, cigarettes show the varying political ideologies.
Reagan speech again reinforces political ideologies.
Women on the phone talking to an unknown voice showing some sort of concern.
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00:00-01:12
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Binary opposites are present as shown by the scene name, the capitalist values of branding, variation and hierarchy. Contrasting to the equality of communism in the east of Germany.
Disruption of the equilibrium is evident through the women speaking to an unknown voice due to the strengthening speech from Raegen saying how he will react to the Russian actions.
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2
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Barracks – Border Crossing
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Medium shot of stairwell with bright lighting, long shot of soldiers walking.
Non-diegetic music is still playing, adding an action like theme and adds suspense for the audience.
Lack of lighting in the hallway to add confusion and suspense.
Close up of shutting the door, foreshadowing an important event.
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Martin is shown to have power over students as they are trying to sneak in contraband, the low medium panning shots look up to him portraying this.
Dark unsaturated lighting portrays the uncertainty and uneasiness from the political tension.
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1:12-3:01
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At this point the narrative is at its equilibrium due to Martin doing his job working for his country, however the West contraband has been confiscated which is a symbol foreshadowing his potential next journey serving his country however he isn't aware.
The denotation of the confiscating the literature shows how he is worthy to his country, however from this minor contraband it shows how he is worse than the original smugglers as he after returns this back to his family home and laughs with his fellow colleague showing how minor the situation is.
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Lily
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East German Foreign Intelligence HQ
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. digetic audio of lenora speaking.
. shot of lenora getting out of her car, going into the main offices in east germany.
.Shot of lenora standing by the window looking out Shows she holds power out of the two.
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tracking shot of lenora as walks into the office
close up as she stands by the window
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3:01- 5:04
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Introduction to lenoras character.
There is a meeting about potential attacks on germany.
The equilibrium begins undisrupted and then becomes disrupted when annet suggests her nephew would take part.
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4
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Rauch Family Home
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setting: tracking shot of martin walking into the garden.
Lots of diegetic sounds from the party.
close
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5:04-6:22
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Martin arrives home to a family garden party.
The narrative so far includes the introduction to martin and the family as the camera follows him into the house.
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5
Tilly
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Inside Rauch Family Home
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Close up - Camera follows Martin as he enters the house to find his girlfriend, Annette.
Diegetic sound of party, talking, glasses clinking, music on the tv
Mid shot of him saying hello to three male friends.
mid shot of TV and a band are playing the lead singer says ‘How cool is this’ diegetic sound
Close up of aunt smoking in the kitchen before asking about her sister’s illness ‘How’s the dialysis going? Diegetic sound
Long shot of aunt looking over through the kitchen at Martin and his girlfriend - cuts to him looking over and smiling at her - medium long shot.
His mother and aunt talk in the kitchen - medium long shot for both characters. His aunt gets her some Nescafe coffee and Chanel perfume - two products banned in the east.
His aunt asks his mother about her health and she expresses that she needs a kidney transplant, yet she will not be granted one as she is not a high priority.
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DISTINCT and camera, editing, mise en scene, sound, themes
setting: house, blue walls, lots of people in blue, darker colours connoting that the East is seen as a more controlled, restricted, less exciting place than the west.
icons: the Nescafe coffee and Chanel perfume given from the aunt to his mother shows the restrictions of the East and the breaking of that control through this action. This is shown through a medium shot of the two sisters talking in the kitchen. The aunt is sitting and the mother is standing presenting that the mother is confident and strong in the house setting and the aunt may be more uncomfortable/awkward as she spends most of her time in the office
characters: sisters talking in the kitchen, secretive, privacy
Martin is with his girlfriend in the other room dancing with the others - reflects their youth, vulnerability, unknowingness of the severity of the war etc
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6:24-8:10
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Equilibrium/disruption/obstacle(Todorov)
Verisimilitude?
Denotation/Connotation/Enigma(Barthes) Binary opposites? (Strauss)
The equilibrium is not evidently disrupted as nothing in this scene changes - the party still goes on. but through the character of the Aunt being introduced this is the catalyst to the change in equilibrium.
The verisimilitude is strong and reinforced through the exchange of illegal gifts of coffee and Chanel perfume as this was a difference between the north and the west. It is also reinforced by the band playing on the TV.
There are enigmas of who the man is on the right as Martin acts surprised and strange to see him.
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6
Kieran
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Opening Sequence
Titles
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Credits:
All non diegetic
countdown 3-1, global map, highlighting Germany, colour coding west and east germany.
Walkthrough of all actors
‘Stop Cold War’
US Flag with hazard signs instead of stars
Germans Protesting
Nuke attack screen
Fighter planes and running
‘Deutschland 83’
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Credit Sequence 8m 11 - 8m 47
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Narrative of the credits shows teh germany divide to give context of how the country was divided and they style
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Rosie
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News Reports
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non-diegetic sound of the TV reporting various news ‘to ensure security in europe through disarmament’
the tv is the only shot with a montage of different news stories in the news from different people in positions of power
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8:48- 9:17
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verisimilitude is present as the news stories are all genuine real stories from the news then
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the narrative here is simply the opening the episode up into the events and news stories happening regarding missiles, war
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8
rosie
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East Germany – Rauch Family Home
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First shot is a tracking shot from behind Martin Rauch with the background slightly blurred initiating his importance
-close ups of martin greeting his mother and family
-there’s numerous diegetic sounds through the dialogue when martin is greeting everyone
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East Germany Rauch House - 5m 05 - 8m 12
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narrative so far includes the introduction to martin and the family as the camera follows him into the house.
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Kieran
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East Germany – Rauch Family Home
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Rauch House:
Old car pulling up to the house.
mum eating food in kitchen
Gets up, realises someone at the door, the door was unlocked.
‘we’d like to speak to martin’
martin sleeping at 3pm
Martin gets woken up
Comrades sit at table to talk to Martin about staying in East Germany
‘Do you play chess?’
‘If martin works for us, i can get you on the kidney transplant list’; blackmail
Can play chess, enjoys football and knows who played, doesn’t play piano
‘Fritz, make us a nice cup of coffee’
coffee gets spiked so Martin passes out
Snaps fingers
Passes out
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East Germany Rauch House 9m 17 - 14m 20
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narrative shows how the army wants Martin to go West Germany as an undercover. Martin wants to stay loyal and not go but he needs to go to save his mother.
main comrade poisons coffee to make Martin pass out so they can transport him to Bonn. Also brakes Martins fingers to get out of football and other activities western germans don't participate in.
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10
Daisy
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West Germany – Tischbier’s House
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He wakes up in West Germany after his coffee had been drugged.
looking up at the ceiling, he notices a large chandelier hanging - a luxury that is not common in East Germany.
sitting up from his bed, he looks at the side table and sees a magazine with --- on the cover.
after getting out of bed, he looks out the window and sees the West Germany Cities and their way of life.
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14:20 - 15:20
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11
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Bonn
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12
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Office of supermarket
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After Martin has run out of Tobias’s house, he runs through West German street. To get away, he runs into a supermarket.
All over the shelves, he sees different brands of products, something that is extremely rare in East Germany.
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13
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Park
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Sam
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Training montage
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-Training scene is full of non-diegetic music to represent the pace of the scene, also the music is of the west which is generally more upbeat and fast paced than eastern music which is slow and patriotic. meaning that this is martins indoctrination into becoming a eastern spy. There is also diegetic audio of the tools and speech that is giving the audience a step by step guide on what Martin needs to know to become a spy.
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There are a variety of camera shots in this scene ranging from extreme close up, to long shot. This is to represent the pace once again of how fast the training is for martin in order for him to become the ultimate spy for the east.
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20:19 -
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the narrative is unresolved and we are left with the enigma of whether he will be suitable for the role and whether he is capable to be successful
The narrative is an open-ended multi stranded narrative as we are following Martin’s story closely but also the verisimilitude of Reagan and the Cold War
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15
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Train Scene
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-A woman boards a train
-The real Moritz Stamm is assassinated by Nina
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Birds eye view of the women boarding the train. Wearing a skirt and leather jacket. Is
Long shot of the women walking towards the camera through the train corridors. Is looking for someone
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16
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Base
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-Martin starts his new role
Kramer – another spy
-Meet General Edel
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Worm hole camera shot, shows Edel is a higher rank than Martin Mid-close up shot
More colourful background and settings
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23:22
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Ami
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Barracks
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Martin is asked whether he’s read ‘Green Party’ (Petra Karin Kelly was a German Green politician and ecofeminist activist. She was a founding member of the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence both nationally in Germany and worldwide). super basic and simple living quarters, as expected. Because east germany was a communist authoritarian state Martin wasn't used to having access to these kinds of novels.
Goes against the ideologies of the east in order to fit into the west society and is “just like my father” referring to the general.
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23:23
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18
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Office
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Phones rings and Martin doesn’t know how to operate it - “don’t they have phones in Braunschweig”.
He has to log all the phone calls - “East Germany - 546 Solviet Union 548. we monitor east germany rom building g and solviet union from building H''
Questions who’s listening to them as it seems that people are always listening and that they too must make “interesting phone calls”
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24:11
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Regan
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Edel’s Office
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Martin (Moritz) gets called into Edel’s office - using the non-diegetic dialogue “Stamm”.
Martin (Moritz) addresses Edel as “General” and Martin (Moritz) is told to go and buy cigarettes for the American coming over.
Martin replies to the General’s dialogue of needing the American “on our side” with “Aren’t all of the Americans on our side?”.
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24:10 - 26:24
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20
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School in East Germany
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Ingrid Rauch (Martin’s mother) ends her PE lesson with the diegetic dialogue of “We end gym class with a loud ‘sport is over!’”.
As Annett walks into the gymnasium, one of Ingrid’sstudents get their (forgotten) jacket from Ingrid.
Annett persists to ask Ingrid where Martin is as she can’t seem to find him anywhere - even at work.
When Annett says that she ‘went’ to where Martin usually works, Ingrid’s facial expressions change as she realises that she has to stop Annett from asking all of these questions about the whereabouts of her boyfriend.
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26:25 - 27:02
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Leo
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Barracks
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This scene shows Moritz in bed, practising picking locks in his bed.
He is doing this in preparation for the infiltration task he has to do in the upcoming scenes.
Unrest from another guard causes him to stop the lock picking
due to him being a spy getting caught is the worst case scenario.
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Scene showing him staring up at ceiling, shows unrest.
close up of Moritz covering the practise lock and pick under his pillow when he could be potentially found. This close up makes sure to bring it to the viewers attention that he is not in safe territory. Poor low lighting creates a certain point of how he views the west.
The area (dorm) he is in is typical for an army barracks, limited furniture, basic living essentials. Little personal touches.
eery xylophone builds a suspense in background to support his wring doing in the scene.
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27:07 - 27:34
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practising locking foreshadows him breaking into the office to obtain the documents (barrts)
oppositional (Strauss) 2 people of different political ideologies sleeping in the same room
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22
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Base
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long shot of the barrack onto which Mortiz is located
cloudy, “depressing” atmosphere sky compliments the warzone.
Western barrack, high grade military equipment. Large facility.
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Long shot to show a location change within the episode.
soldiers with red caps draws attention from the viewer.
Sound is the a TV news broadcast which is giving updates on the nuclear tensions between both sides of Germany and the potential for world war 3.
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27:40- 27:43
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Maisie
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Canteen
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99 Luftballons song (non -diegetic sound) ‘This song is playing everywhere’ -General's son (Alex Edel), trying to make conversation with Martin. Martins loss of appetite could be due to his stress of being a spy as there is a lot to take on. Four of them sit down in the canteen and mock the east. Discussing ‘negotiations’.
Martin realises the General talking to others, and therefore seizes the moment to try and see what is in their briefcase.
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There are a range of medium to close up shots (whilst introducing the new characters to the programme ) as well as a tracking shot when Martin and Alex are about to sit down in the canteen.
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30:00s - 31:17s
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24
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Base
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Martin sneaks into base where he tries to break into the room where the briefcase is by using the skills he has just been taught. There are constant switches between close up to long shots to show the details of him breaking into the doors/drawers etc. He finally gets into the room with the briefcase and opens it up to find confidential information about the west, immediately taking photographs of them. After he rapidly takes photos, he rushes out of the room and jams the keys back in the drawer and not long after everyone enters the room.
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The first shot that is shown in this scene is a long tracking shot of Martin through the blinds to emphasise how he is a spy and is sneaking around. The blinds cut out half of the shot to create suspension as well as making it seem like someone is spying on him. The close up shots of him trying to pick the lock create tension and leave viewers wondering whether he will do it in time. Martin is constantly looking around nervously to see whether anyone is coming. Non- diegetic orchestral tense music, creates suspense as it sounds like it’s building up to something. The close up shots of Martin’s expression, highlights how anxious he is.
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31:17s - 33:58s
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25
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Bonn – Edel House
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33:58s - 42:43s
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26
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Outside Edel House
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42:43s - 44:24s
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27
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Training in the woods
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44:24s - 47:16s
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