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Doppelgänger Paul, or A Film About How Much I Hate Myself is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Dylan Akio Smith and Kris Elgstrand and released in 2011. The film stars Tygh Runyan as Karl, a lonely man who decides following a near-death experience that Paul (Brad Dryborough) is his doppelgänger, even
Nov 6, 2017 · The word “doppelgänger” was introduced by German author Jean Paul in his 1796 novel Siebenkäs. The circuitous plot features the protagonist, Siebenkäs, exchanging identities with his friend...
With Arabella Bushnell, Ben Cotton, Brad Dryborough, Matty Finochio. The unlikely relationship of two lonely men whose connection sets off a chain of events resulting in the loss of a thumb, the theft of a manuscript, and two appearances on a popular morning talk show.
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- Comedy
- Kris Elgstrand, Dylan Akio Smith
- 2012-01
A doppelgänger (/ ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər,-ɡ æ ŋ ər /), sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a biologically unrelated look-alike or double, of a living person. In fiction and mythology, a doppelgänger is often portrayed as a ghostly or paranormal phenomenon and usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck.
well known for centuries before the term itself was coined by Jean Paul in his novel Siebenkis (1796) and appropriated for psychoanalytical theory by Otto Rank in Der Doppelgdnger (1925). Given the frequency of its literary occurrence, the phenomenon has generated a number of studies, beginning with Wilhelmine Krauss's Das Doppelgiingermo-
Jun 27, 1996 · Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkäs (1796), the concept of Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal — but nonetheless significant ...
A fiercely lonely, would-be writer named Paul (Tygh Runyan), is convinced that Karl (Brad Dryborough), the last man he saw before a near death experience, is his doppelgänger — even though they could hardly be more dissimilar.
