Wolf time
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wolf time |
| Original title | Le temps you loup |
| Country of production | France , Austria , Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Haneke |
| script | Michael Haneke |
| production |
Margaret Ménégoz , Veit Heiduschka |
| camera | Jürgen Juerges |
| cut |
Monika Willi , Nadine Muse |
| occupation | |
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Wolfzeit is a fictional film by the Austrian director Michael Haneke from 2003, which was staged as an Austrian-German-French joint production in French. The film is about a family in an exceptional situation.
action
Even at the beginning of the film, civilization seems to have collapsed without the narrative elaborating on it. A family of four is on the way to their holiday home. Once there, the father is shot by people who are occupying the house. The mother Anne is now completely on her own with her two children Eva and Ben. You wander through an apocalyptic world where burning cows and rotting sheep lie on the roadside. After a while they come to a train station where they meet other refugees and submit to the hierarchy that rules there. When new people arrive, everything seems to get out of hand again.
background
After The Piano Player, Wolfzeit is Michael Haneke's second film with Isabelle Huppert , who is one of his favorite actresses.
The film was produced by the Viennese Wega Film in collaboration with the French Les Films du Losange and the German Bavaria-Film . The film was shot between April and June 2002 in Unterpullendorf in Burgenland , in Großmittel in Lower Austria and in Vienna.
The film premiered on May 20, 2003 at the Cannes Film Festival. However, the production was not allowed to take part in the competition because the jury president Patrice Chereau was an actor in the film. The film start in Austria was on January 23, 2004, in Germany on the 1st of this month. The film was unsuccessful at the box office. The film achieved the highest number of admissions in the three producer countries France (31,000 admissions), Germany (17,000) and Austria (14,000). The distribution rights are at Filmladen .
Reviews
“Wolfzeit, dressed in careful widescreen compositions by cameraman Jürgen Jürges (a few points of light slide into the picture far away at night, a frightened bird tries to escape from a log cabin), draws its strength from the clarity of its design and from the complete absence of Science fiction elements: the desperation it shows takes place in the here and now, in a world that doesn't seem far from getting out of hand. "
“Loosely connected scenes about some people who after the collapse of the public structures in a rural train station band together and wait for a train. A parable that alternates between anarchic outbreaks of violence and an ominous pogrom mood about a time devoid of law and norms, which confronts an extreme situation without distance and undermines traditional expectations. What is striking is the lack of concrete social or societal contexts, which calls into question the moral gesture of the film and its director Michael Haneke. "
Web links
- Le Temps du loup in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- filmszene.de
literature
Haneke about Haneke. Conversations with Michel Cieutat and Philippe Rouyer. Translated from the French by Marcus Seibert, edited by Michel Cieutat, Philippe Rouyer. Berlin u. a. 2013, pp. 261-273
Michael Haneke: Violence and Media. In: close-up. Michael Haneke. Conversations with Thomas Assheuer. Ed. By Thomas Assheuer (ed.): Berlin 2008, pp. 155–166.
Tim Sparenberg: State of emergency and zone of ambiguity. Michael Haneke's film "Wolfszeit" and Christoph Ransmayrs / Martins Pollack's story "Der Wolfsjäger". In: Inhospitable Landscapes. Imaginations of wasteland in literature and media. Edited by Sabine Eickenrodt and Katarína Motyková. Frankfurt am Main 2016, pp. 137–162 https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783653966282/chapter06.xhtml
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Wolfzeit . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2004 (PDF; test number: 96 547 K).
- ↑ Medianet magazine , May 8, 2003 ( digitized )
- ↑ Austrian Film Institute
- ↑ Database of movie attendance figures in Europe
- ↑ criticism. In: Die Presse , May 21, 2003, via amourfou.at
- ↑ Wolf time. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 15, 2017 .
