1987 · czech · thriller · allegory
Wolf's Hole
Directed by Věra Chytilová1h 35m1987
Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors.
Our read: Wolf's Hole (1987) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive czech · thriller · allegory entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, extreme czech / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- cold
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