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Children liberated from a Nazi concentration camp have to overcome hunger, thirst and vicious dogs in an abandoned mansion surrounded by the forest.Children liberated from a Nazi concentration camp have to overcome hunger, thirst and vicious dogs in an abandoned mansion surrounded by the forest.Children liberated from a Nazi concentration camp have to overcome hunger, thirst and vicious dogs in an abandoned mansion surrounded by the forest.
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Oleksandr Shcherbyna
- Lonka
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The underlying meaning in this film is the actual truth of humanity n not like Lord Of...
The premise is a bit similar, in fact even more harsher than Lord Of...
Children r saved from a Nazi concentration camp but they encounter hunger, thirst and dogs in a hostile war ravaged environment.
The best part is the acting n the child actors nailed it. The film does have some brutal n dark scenes, lil suspense n heart pounding tension.
The actual truth about humanity: v aint fighters, bt lovers. Our internal default is 2 work 2gethr. Despite everything, humanity is actually decent - Rutger Bregman.
The best part is the acting n the child actors nailed it. The film does have some brutal n dark scenes, lil suspense n heart pounding tension.
The actual truth about humanity: v aint fighters, bt lovers. Our internal default is 2 work 2gethr. Despite everything, humanity is actually decent - Rutger Bregman.
This is not your average World War II movie. This is not your average Holocaust movie. The is definitely not your average werewolf movie.
This film is something special. I don't watch many foreign films, but I think you'll like this one as much as I did because it's a film-lovers film - or an actor's film, perhaps.
The story follows a group of children recently liberated from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, they land in a huge, empty mansion in the care of sinister Russians. That's not the worst of it, though, because the place is surrounded by vicious animals. Are they escaped military working dogs or something much, much worse?
While I don't know the cast or crew, I am certain they are at the top of their game in their home country (Poland). Watch this film - I promise you can't guess the ending!
This film is something special. I don't watch many foreign films, but I think you'll like this one as much as I did because it's a film-lovers film - or an actor's film, perhaps.
The story follows a group of children recently liberated from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, they land in a huge, empty mansion in the care of sinister Russians. That's not the worst of it, though, because the place is surrounded by vicious animals. Are they escaped military working dogs or something much, much worse?
While I don't know the cast or crew, I am certain they are at the top of their game in their home country (Poland). Watch this film - I promise you can't guess the ending!
Another really overrated movie, nothing special to see if you ask me. First of all the title is misleading and stupidly chosen, Werewolves or Wilkolak whilst it has nothing to do at all with werewolves. A pack of dogs terrorizing a bunch of kids, that's about it. It's long, slow and boring. I wish it was something else but unfortunately it isn't. The acting is okay though, even from the kids, but the story just lacks of everything interesting. If you want to watch a horror movie, like I did, you'd better skip this one because there is 0% of horror in Wilkolak.
If ever a film demonstrated man's inhumanity to man, this has to be up there. Here we have a few half starved kids so terrified of their Nazi guards that they perform automatic, humiliating tasks just to get through each day. You get the distinct impression that they have never known any other kind of life. Once their camp has been liberated and they are effectively abandoned, they take a chance to bond together in a derelict country house for survival and turn into quite an effective group against a clear and natural animal enemy that is now just as deprived of freedom (and food) and many of them. There is certainly some gore, but it seems appropriately inflicted on the deserving. The title is slightly misleading, I thought. There is nothing supernatural about the "horror" here - it's as plain as the nose on your face. Certainly worth seeing on a big screen.
Not the horror you think it is. Dealing with young children rescued from a concentration camp by the Russian forces at the end of WW2. Taken to a country house with limited food and water. Their situation deteriorates dramatically when they find themselves surrounded by vicious guard dogs from the very death camp they escaped from. Part Lord of the Flies, part Cujo, the tradegy of their existence is brought home time and time again - be it fighting for a simple potato peeling, or the stories they tell of the sights they witnessed. The struggle here is for them to hold on to the slender thread of humanity they still have within them, or decent into a vicious existence, that matches the dogs that threaten them.
Did you know
- TriviaRegarding Gross-Rosen, as mentioned in this film: KZ [Concentration camp] Gross-Rosen [now modern day Rogoznica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland] concentration camp was functional by the summer of 1940 until 14th February 1945, with an estimated 40,000 captives losing their lives there. KZ Gross-Rosen [German name: Konzentrationslager Groß-Rosen], too, had the slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" ["Work sets you free" or "Work makes one free"] at its entrance.
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- 1h 28m(88 min)
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