Time of the Wolf
- Isabelle Huppert: Anne Laurent
- Daniel Duval: Georges Laurent
- Anaïs Demoustier: Eva
- Lucas Biscombe: Ben
- Hakim Taleb: Young
- Béatrice Dalle: Lise Brandt
- Patrice Chéreau: Thomas Brandt
- Rona Hartner: Arina
- Maurice Bénichou: M. Azoulay
- Olivier Gourmet: Koslowski
- Brigitte Roüan: Béa
- Branko Samarovski: policeman
- Thierry van Werveke: Jean
- Pierre Berriau: Fred, the murderer in House
- Maria Hofstätter: Belligerent woman
Time of the Wolf is a feature film by Austrian director Michael Haneke 's 2003, which was staged as Austro- German - French co-production in French. The film is about a family in an exceptional situation.
Action
Already at the beginning of the film seems to civilization collapsed without the narrative closer enters it. A family of four is on the way to their vacation home. Once there, of people who occupy the house, the father is shot. The mother Anne is now made completely with their two children Eva and Ben up. You wander through an apocalyptic world where burning cows and rotting sheep on the roadside. After some time, they come to a station where they meet other refugees, and be subject to the prevailing hierarchy. As new people arrive, everything seems to come back out of control.
Background
Time of the Wolf is after the second film The Piano Teacher Michael Haneke with Isabelle Huppert, who is one of his favorite actresses.
The film was produced by the Vienna Wega Film in collaboration with the French Les Films du Losange and the German Bavaria Film. The film was shot from April to June 2002 Burgenland Unterpullendorf in Lower Austria's large means and in Vienna.
The film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2003. Participation in the competition, however, the production was denied because the jury president Patrice Chereau participated as an actor in the film. Film launch in Austria was on 23 January 2004. At the box office, the film was not successful. Most admissions was the film in the three producer countries France ( 31,000 moviegoers ), Germany ( 17,000 ) and Austria achieved ( 14,000 ). The distribution rights are at movie store.
Reviews
" Time of the Wolf, dressed by cinematographer Jürgen Jürges in careful widescreen compositions ( a few points of light move at night far away into the picture, a startled bird tries to escape from a log cabin ), draws its strength from the clarity of its design and of the total absence of sci-fi elements: the despair that he shows takes place in the here and now, in a world that is not far seems to spiral out of control. "
" Loosely coupled scenes to some people who band together after the collapse of public structures on a rural station and wait for a train. An iridescent between anarchic violence and sinister pogrom mood parable about a legal and standard -less time, faced with an extreme situation distanzlos and traditional expectations among runs. What is striking is the lack of specific social or societal contexts, which provides the moral gesture of the film and its director Michael Haneke in question. "