Hour of the Wolf

1968 [SWEDISH]

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery

31
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 24669 24.7K

island nightmare isolation insanity artist diary

Plot summary

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

Director

Ingmar Bergman Photo
Ingmar Bergman

Top cast

Folke Sundquist Photo
Folke Sundquist as Tamino
Agda Helin Photo
Agda Helin as von Merken's Maid
Liv Ullmann Photo
Liv Ullmann as Alma Borg
Georg Rydeberg Photo
Georg Rydeberg as Lindhorst
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729.16 MB
988*720
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 6
1.39 GB
1472*1072
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 41

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cheese_cake 8 / 10

dark and haunting portrait of one man's inner demons

a man moves to a remote island with his wife. he cannot sleep at night and is tormented by inner demons. the film tracks this madness of his. excellent performances by max snydow and liv ullman. the cinematography is beautiful and precise. as is usual with bergman's films, it is not clear on first viewing what the movie is all about. why the man is tormented, is a mystery, at least to me.
Reviewed by Xstal 9 / 10

Torture, Torment & Trauma...

Johan can't escape from traumas past, he's tormented, harrowed, provoked and harassed, his mind is playing tricks, it tortures, taunts, afflicts, leaves him confused, muddled, perplexed and aghast.A surreal overflowing meltdown, full of symbolism, abstraction and confusion, as the artist Johan Borg struggles to cope with the visions and apparitions that haunt his disturbed being. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullman once again present us with characters from the imagination of Ingmar Bergman that exist in an alien world, or at least one most of us are quite unfamiliar with (thank goodness), in a piece of cinema, like so many others from the director, that need revisiting whenever you get the chance, if for no other reason than to see what you missed previously.
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