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Hour of the Wolf

Hour of the Wolf

1968 · 88 min · SV · 7.4 (583 votes)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg, Erland Josephson, Naima Wifstrand · Music Lars Johan Werle

“The hour of the wolf is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is the deepest, when nightmares feel most real.”

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While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

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A descent into a waking nightmare. The film feels like a fever dream, a suffocating gothic experience where reality warps and the artist's psyche unravels in isolation. It's deeply unsettling and visually arresting.

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