''Wolf's Hole'' ( cs, Vlčí bouda) is a 1986 Czechoslovak science fiction
horror film
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Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...
directed by
Věra Chytilová
Věra Chytilová (2 February 1929 – 12 March 2014) was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film, ''Sedmikrásky'' ('' Dais ...
.
It was entered into the
37th Berlin International Film Festival
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.
The film can be characterized as moralizing horror, but may also be interpreted as an allegory for the atmosphere surrounding the
normalization
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* Normalization (sociology) or social normalization, the process through which ideas and behaviors that may fall outside of ...
period.
Plot
A group of teenagers are invited to a skiing workshop in the mountains, without being told how or why they were picked as participants. There are eleven of them, but the camp supervisors insist that there should be only ten, and that one of them is an intruder. As the group find themselves cut off from the outside world, strange things begin to happen; the supervisors seem intent to create an atmosphere of hostility, turning the participants against each other, even urging them to kill each other. The supervisors eventually reveal themselves as extraterrestrials who demand that the group pick one among them to be sacrificed. They refuse, however, and in a panic set the cottage on fire and make a narrow escape on a lift used for timber transport, leaving no man behind.
Cast
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Miroslav Macháček
Miroslav Macháček (May 8, 1922 – February 17, 1991) was a Czech theatre director and an actor.
Life and career
Miroslav Macháček was born in Nymburk. His father was a car painter and a custodian of the theater in Nymburk and sometimes work ...
as Daddy
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Tomás Palatý as Dingo
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Stepánka Cervenková as Babeta
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Jan Bidlas as Honza
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Rita Dudusová as Gitka
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Irena Mrozková as Linda
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Hana Mrozkovy as Lenka
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Norbert Pycha as Marcipan
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Simona Racková as Gaba
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Roman Fiser as Jozka
* Frantisek Stanek as Petr
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Radka Slavíková as Emilka
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Jitka Zelenková Jitka is a Czech female given name. It is nickname of Hebrew name Judith, meaning ''He will be praised'' or ''woman of Judea''. The old Czech form is Jutka, derived the German name Jutta. Name day celebrate 5 December. Pronounced "YIT-kah".
Famou ...
as Brona
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Petr Horacek as Alan
Awards and nominations
The film was nominated for the
Golden Bear for Best Film at the
1987 Berlin Film Festival.
References
External links
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1986 films
1986 horror films
1980s science fiction horror films
1980s Czech-language films
Czechoslovak science fiction horror films
Films directed by Věra Chytilová
Czech science fiction horror films
1980s Czech films
1986 science fiction films
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