Holidays in Hell (1971)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Holidays in Hell |
| Original title | Wake in Fright |
| Country of production |
Australia , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ted Kotcheff |
| script |
Evan Jones based on the novel Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook |
| production | George Willoughby |
| music | John Scott |
| camera | Brian West |
| cut | Anthony Buckley |
| occupation | |
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Holidays in Hell (Original title: Wake in Fright ) is an Australian - American thriller from 1971 , based on the 1961 novel Wake in Fright by the writer Kenneth Cook .
action
John Grant has big plans: he is aiming for a career as a journalist in England, but he lacks the necessary money. So it is a good thing that a job as a primary school teacher in the Australian outback beckons him, which he accepts with dollar bills in mind.
Later, during the Christmas break, Grant moves to Sydney, where he hopes to meet his girlfriend. On the way he ends up stranded at night in the former mining town of Yabba, where he meets the locals in a bar. He is drawn into the life of strangers, which mainly consists of drinking bouts, gambling and the hunt for kangaroos. Although he detests many of these "occupations", he gradually sinks into a vortex of these very things.
reception
"The film presents a vision of world without purpose, where boredom breeds obscenity."
"The film presents the vision of a meaningless world in which boredom breeds obscenity."
The critics of the German program magazine TV Spielfilm call the strip an “existentialist trip into a dull man's world” and give it a “thumbs up”.
“[The film] is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing. It… contains a great deal of horror, but all of the horror is human and brutally realistic. "
“[The movie] is powerful, really shocking, and quite amazing. It ... contains a great deal of cruelty, but it is human and brutally realistic. "
Web links
- Holiday in hell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Holidays in Hell in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Luke Buckmaster: Wake in Fright: rewatching classic Australian films. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , February 14, 2014, accessed October 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Holidays in Hell on tvspielfilm.de
- ^ Roger Ebert : Wake in Fright. In: rogerebert.com. October 31, 2012, accessed October 27, 2016 .