Drama A / D / F 2003, 120 min., 35mm Script: Michael Haneke Director of Photography: Jürgen Jürgens Editing: Nadine Muse, Monika Willi Producers: Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Weber
with Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Bénichou, Patrice Chéreau, Béatrice Dalle, Anais Demoustier, Olivier Gourmet et al.
A production of Wega Film in co-production with Les Films du Losange (F); Bavaria Film (D)
The time preceding the apocalypse, when all values disintegrate and the highest becomes the lowest, is known in Germanic mythology as the time of the wolves. Fleeing a disaster, a middle-class family (father, mother, two children) travel from the city to their private countryside refuge, believing themselves to be escaping the consequences of the general state of chaos.
