''Wolf's Hole'' () is a 1986 Czechoslovak science fiction

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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 Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave 1966 film ''S ...

. It was entered into the

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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

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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

Miroslav Macháček Miroslav Macháček (May 8, 1922 – February 17, 1991) was a Czech theatre director and actor. Life and career Macháček was born in Nymburk. His father was a car painter and a custodian of (and sometimes actor and director in) the theater in ...

as Daddy * Tomás Palatý as Dingo * Stepánka Cervenková as Babeta *

Jan Bidlas Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Num ...

as Honza * Rita Dudusová as Gitka * Irena Mrozková as Linda * Hana Mrozkovy as Lenka * Norbert Pycha as Marcipan * Simona Racková as Gaba * Roman Fiser as Jozka * Frantisek Stanek as Petr * Radka Slavíková as Emilka *

Jitka Zelenková Jitka is a Czech female given name. It is a nickname of the Hebrew name Judith, meaning ''He will be praised'' or ''woman of Judea''. The old Czech form is Jutka, derived from the German name Jutta. The name day is celebrated on 5 December. Pronounc ...

as Brona * Petr Horacek as Alan

Awards and nominations

The film was nominated for the

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for Best Film at the 1987 Berlin Film Festival.

References

External links

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