Before Sunrise (1995) Cast & Characters — QuantCinema

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CAST · BEFORE SUNRISE

Faces & feelings

Per-character screen time, dialogue and emotion breakdown — derived from face recognition + expression classifier across every frame.

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Faces detected

22,245

across full runtime

Named matches

9

actors identified

Close-up shots

19.1%

of all framed shots

Smile rate

19.5%

frames with detected joy

Gender split

59%

41%

M / F · screen-time weighted

Dominant emotion

Neutral 33%

film-wide aggregate

Most expressive

Dominik Castell

94% non-neutral

Lead screen share

56%

9 tracked characters

Overall emotion distribution

7 emotions · all characters · screen-time weighted

Happy

19.5%

4,327 frames

Surprise

3.8%

839 frames

Neutral

33.3%

7,416 frames

Fear

13.1%

2,918 frames

Sad

20.5%

4,551 frames

Angry

3.9%

858 frames

Disgust

6.0%

1,336 frames

Screen time by actor

9 named · 87m tracked of 101.1m

01

Julie Delpy

as Céline · 7015 scenes

48.8min · 56% of cast

happy

02

Ethan Hawke

as Jesse · 4796 scenes

33.3min · 38% of cast

sad

03

Erni Mangold

as Palm Reader · 172 scenes

1.2min · 1% of cast

happy

04

Karl Bruckschwaiger

as Guy on Bridge · 146 scenes

1.0min · 1% of cast

disgust

05

Tex Rubinowitz

as Guy on Bridge · 117 scenes

0.8min · 1% of cast

disgust

06

Dominik Castell

as Street Poet · 97 scenes

0.7min · 1% of cast

angry

07

Hanno Pöschl

as Husband on Train · 88 scenes

0.6min · 1% of cast

sad

08

Andrea Eckert

as Wife on Train · 79 scenes

0.6min · 1% of cast

neutral

09

Haymon Maria Buttinger

as Bartender · 64 scenes

0.4min · 1% of cast

angry

Dialogue by character

words spoken · WPM · share of total dialogue

NOTE — speaker matching uses face-detection overlap; actors not recognized by the AI appear as unidentified.

Actor / Character	Words spoken	WPM	% of dialogue
Ethan Hawke as Jesse	5,128	224.9	46.5%
Julie Delpy as Céline	4,848	209.8	44.0%
Dominik Castell as Street Poet	301	245.6	2.7%
Karl Bruckschwaiger as Guy on Bridge	293	226.9	2.7%
Hanno Pöschl as Husband on Train	232	213.5	2.1%
Erni Mangold as Palm Reader	142	169.4	1.3%
Haymon Maria Buttinger as Bartender	61	290.9	0.6%
Unidentified speakers	13	—	0.1%

Cast profiles

arc · volatility · emotion breakdown per actor

JD

Julie Delpy

AS CÉLINE

● Dominant: happy

Screen time

48m 46s

Scenes

7015

First seen

2:37

Last seen

98:30

Volatility

34 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0025m50m75m101.1m

33%

Happy

1%

Surprise

23%

Neutral

7%

Fear

32%

Sad

1%

Angry

3%

Disgust

EH

Ethan Hawke

AS JESSE

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

33m 20s

Scenes

4796

First seen

2:54

Last seen

98:00

Volatility

41 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0025m50m75m101.1m

21%

Happy

8%

Surprise

22%

Neutral

5%

Fear

25%

Sad

4%

Angry

16%

Disgust

EM

Erni Mangold

AS PALM READER

● Dominant: happy

Screen time

1m 12s

Scenes

172

First seen

37:11

Last seen

39:28

Volatility

27 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0025m50m75m101.1m

56%

Happy

8%

Surprise

12%

Neutral

0%

Fear

14%

Sad

0%

Angry

10%

Disgust

KB

Karl Bruckschwaiger

AS GUY ON BRIDGE

● Dominant: disgust

Screen time

1m 01s

Scenes

146

First seen

17:44

Last seen

19:31

Volatility

25 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0025m50m75m101.1m

34%

Happy

0%

Surprise

1%

Neutral

0%

Fear

9%

Sad

2%

Angry

54%

Disgust

TR

Tex Rubinowitz

AS GUY ON BRIDGE

● Dominant: disgust

Screen time

0m 49s

Scenes

117

First seen

17:43

Last seen

19:33

Volatility

25 Low

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0025m50m75m101.1m

15%

Happy

0%

Surprise

4%

Neutral

2%

Fear

1%

Sad

15%

Angry

62%

Disgust

DC

Dominik Castell

AS STREET POET

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

0m 40s

Scenes

97

First seen

48:29

Last seen

52:09

Volatility

57 High

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0025m50m75m101.1m

7%

Happy

4%

Surprise

6%

Neutral

25%

Fear

17%

Sad

35%

Angry

6%

Disgust

HP

Hanno Pöschl

AS HUSBAND ON TRAIN

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

0m 37s

Scenes

88

First seen

2:22

Last seen

4:57

Volatility

35 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0025m50m75m101.1m

3%

Happy

0%

Surprise

25%

Neutral

0%

Fear

41%

Sad

31%

Angry

0%

Disgust

AE

Andrea Eckert

AS WIFE ON TRAIN

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

0m 33s

Scenes

79

First seen

2:22

Last seen

4:57

Volatility

37 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0025m50m75m101.1m

4%

Happy

17%

Surprise

46%

Neutral

1%

Fear

9%

Sad

0%

Angry

24%

Disgust

HM

Haymon Maria Buttinger

AS BARTENDER

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

0m 26s

Scenes

64

First seen

79:44

Last seen

80:52

Too few detections for emotion analysis

Speaker diarization

talk-time · turns · pacing per speaker

Talk-time share · 9 clusterssums to 100.0% of all dialogue

Hawke 45.0%

Delpy 45.6%

First-word entry · per speakerdot = first line · trail = on-screen window · 3 ensemble

0:0025:1750:3375:50101:06

runtime

Hanno Pöschl

2:26enter

Ethan Hawke

4:03enter

Julie Delpy

4:09enter

SPEAKER 09

5:10enter

Karl Bruckschwaiger

17:45enter

Erni Mangold

37:28enter

Dominik Castell

48:16enter

SPEAKER 08

53:39enter

Haymon Maria Buttinger

54:21enter

Ethan HawkeSPEAKER 05

Rapid exchange

45.0%

of all dialogue · 5,128 words · 22:48 spoken

WPM224.9

Turns763

Avg turn1.7s

Longest31.8s

enters at 4:03profanity 0

Julie DelpySPEAKER 17

Rapid exchange

45.6%

of all dialogue · 4,848 words · 23:07 spoken

WPM209.8

Turns997

Avg turn1.4s

Longest12.5s

enters at 4:09profanity 0

Dominik CastellSPEAKER 11

Brief

2.4%

of all dialogue · 301 words · 1:14 spoken

WPM245.6

Turns76

Avg turn1.2s

Longest10.5s

enters at 48:16profanity 0

Karl BruckschwaigerSPEAKER 20

Conversational

2.6%

of all dialogue · 293 words · 1:18 spoken

WPM226.9

Turns131

Avg turn1.2s

Longest20.9s

enters at 17:45profanity 0

Hanno PöschlSPEAKER 14

Brief

2.1%

of all dialogue · 232 words · 1:05 spoken

WPM213.5

Turns33

Avg turn2.5s

Longest7.4s

enters at 2:26profanity 1

Erni MangoldSPEAKER 19

Brief

1.7%

of all dialogue · 142 words · 0:50 spoken

WPM169.4

Turns45

Avg turn1.3s

Longest5.9s

enters at 37:28profanity 0

Haymon Maria ButtingerSPEAKER 13

Brief

0.4%

of all dialogue · 61 words · 0:13 spoken

WPM290.9

Turns17

Avg turn1.4s

Longest5.1s

enters at 54:21profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 08 · unmatched

Brief

0.1%

of all dialogue · 10 words · 0:03 spoken

WPM222.2

Turns13

Avg turn1.1s

Longest4.2s

enters at 53:39profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 09 · unmatched

Brief

0.1%

of all dialogue · 3 words · 0:02 spoken

WPM118.4

Turns21

Avg turn0.7s

Longest2.0s

enters at 5:10profanity 0

AGGREGATE — 9 unique characters · 22,245 faces detected · 9 named matches · 87m screen-time tracked