Night Hunt - The time of the hunter

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Movie
German title Night Hunt - The time of the hunter
Original title Försvunnen
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 2011
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Mattias Olsson
Henrik JP Åkesson
script Mattias Olsson
production Henrik JP Åkesson
Michael Petersson
Erik Magnusson
music Nils-Petter Ankarblom
camera Erik Molberg Hansen
cut Johan Serrander
occupation

Night Hunt - The time of the hunter (Original title: Försvunnen , "Disappeared") is a Swedish thriller by the directors Mattias Olsson and Henrik JP Åkesson from 2011 . It is about a woman who is chased through the Swedish forests by a man she does not know and who has to fight for her survival there.

action

The focus of the film is the Swede Malin, who sets off with her car and trailer on the way to the northern forests of Sweden to give her life a new direction. Her hope is that this will help her cope better with her brother's suicide, in which Malin feels complicit. After traveling for a while, she notices that a black off-road vehicle is continuously following her. When Malin takes a short rest, the off-road vehicle driver approaches her in an intrusive manner and then explains to her which route would best bring her to her destination. He introduces himself to her under the name of Mannen.

After Malin has continued her journey, she sees the man parked on the side of the road some time later and signals to her that his car has broken down. Although the young woman cannot help feeling uncomfortable, she stops to ask if she can help. Her feeling has not deceived her, because the man surprised and stunned her. When Malin comes to, she is in a cellar dungeon in a remote forest hut. Mannen lets her know that he intends to rape her and later kill her. It had happened to other women before her. When the sadistic man leaves the hut for a short time, the young woman manages to free herself from the dungeon. Before she can flee into the woods, however, Mannen comes back and Malin can hear in her quickly chosen hiding place how he calls his wife and tells her that he has just stayed at a hotel near the Thames .

When a car approaches the hut, Malin hopes that you will wave help from there and runs out of the forest hut. The driver of the car is Stefan, a man Malin had already met at a rest stop on her tour. Her desperate request to help her is suppressed by men, whom she portrays to Stefan as a mentally disturbed woman. While Stefan still feels torn about who to believe, Malin runs to his car and looks for the ignition key in the interior . While she is still there, Mannen knocks Stefan down from behind with a wooden slat. Horrified, Malin flees into the woods, where she meets Stefan a long time later, and together they continue their escape. Startled by a noise and a shadow approaching them, Stefan hits the approaching figure with a thick branch, suspecting that it is men. As it turns out, however, he knocked down a hunter named Peter from Hamburg who was on the hunt . After he has picked himself up again, he takes Malin and Stefan to his car to bring them back to civilization . On their way out of the forest, a path is blocked by a fallen tree trunk. Malin and Stefan try in vain to clear the way. Peter wants to take this opportunity to continue without them. After a short stretch of the way, Mannen blocks the way with his off-road vehicle. After he fails to get hold of Peter's rifle, he takes a hatchet out of his car under a pretext, knocks Peter down at a moment when the latter is not paying attention and shoots him with his own rifle. Mannen then hunts down Malin and Stefan with a rifle.

For Malin and Stefan, the odyssey through the woods continues. When men shoot Malin, Stefan saves her life by pulling her to the ground. Stefan is seriously injured himself by a shot in the abdomen. After he cannot continue walking, Malin has to leave him behind, but gives him a promise that she will definitely find help. During her adventurous escape, Malin and Mannen end up in a life-and-death fight, during which she steals his rifle and shoots men. She fights her way back to Stefan, where both are found and rescued by a Swedish police helicopter .

The police also tell them that men led a double life . He was considered a loyal family man who could keep the secret of being a murderer for a long time.

Production and Background

The film was shot in Karlskrona and Blekinge län . The Swedish premiere took place on August 26, 2011. In Norway , the film ran under the title Forsvunnet ( Disappeared ) on March 21, 2012 in cinemas.

The film has also been available in German on DVD and Blu-ray since May 9 and May 12, 2012, respectively , published by Senator Home Entertainment, distributed by Universum Film.

The actress who played Malin, Sofia Ledarp, played the journalist Malin Eriksson in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy .

criticism

The film magazine Cinema found that it was an "abysmal Scandinavian thriller in the style of a Jo Nesbø novel".

Albert Imroth from MovieMaze.de said that the “strength of the film is not its plot, because it is neither new nor peppered with surprising twists. What really sets Night Hunt - the time of the hunter - or disappeared , as the simple original title says, is the gripping staging. [...] You get the best thriller entertainment here with a leading actress worth seeing [...] and what [is] a rule in Swedish films, in a picturesque Nordic forest backdrop. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Night Hunt - The time of the hunter . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 240 V).
  2. ↑ Night Hunt - The time of the hunter at splashmovies.de (DVD). Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ Night Hunt - The time of the hunter at bluray-disc.de (Blu-ray). Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ Night Hunt - The time of the hunter at Cinema.de. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ Night Hunt - The time of the hunter at moviemaze.de. Retrieved March 6, 2013.